The Long Beach Island Historical Museum in Beach Haven will continue its tradition of hosting its Monday Night Talks in the summer of 2019. But this year some of those lectures will stretch the program’s range. Typically its talks, given by local historians, concentrate on the Island’s past, the lore of the Southern Ocean County mainland or, at least, events that occurred in Ocean County or New Jersey. This year, however, the lineup includes lectures on subjects far afield.

Don’t worry, LBI and its environs will still dominate. The season’s schedule, for example, will kick off on July 8 with…