The enchantment of New Jersey’s Pine Barrens springs from stories of many cultures that have grown through time. Storyteller, writer and performer Michelle Washington Wilson relates these tales during “Legends and Lore Kept Alive in the Jersey Pines” at the Ocean County Library’s Waretown branch on Monday, July 15 at 6 p.m.

She will talk about how settlers and migrants in the region’s farms, fields and factories brought their cultures and traditions to yarns of strange occurrences and ghostly characters unique to the Pinelands.

Now in her fourth decade as a motivational storyteller, Wilson is an active member of the New Jersey Storytelling…