The next New Jersey Maritime Museum monthly presentation will take place Friday, Nov. 15, at 7 p.m. at Buckalew’s Bar & Restaurant in Beach Haven. The guest speaker will be Jeff Brown, a Southern Regional High School teacher and historian at the Military Technology Museum in Wall. His topic is “Civil Defense and Fall-Out Shelters.”

The concept ofcivildefense was to protect the citizens of a statefrom military attacks and natural disasters.