Water flows to the ocean via rivers, streams, and estuaries, connecting animal habitats and providing food, shelter, and homes for many species. From mountainous streams to coastal estuaries, wherever water runs, these creatures make a splish splash! This exhibit explores our watery environments with representations of animals and their habitats. Six artists present paintings, prints, drawings, ceramics, and cork sculptures, with styles ranging from lifelike depictions to more abstract expressions. Meet the artists, our curator and enjoy free snacks and refreshments at this exhibit opening!
Participating Artists Callum Marks Charlotte Van Zant-King Conrad Willett Ken Dust Sandra Dust Shawn Ramirez
Join the Lincoln County Historical Society (LCHS) and the Lincoln County Genealogical Society (LCGS) for the first annual Family Heritage Resource Fair at the Pacific Maritime Heritage Center! The LCGS will feature 1-on-1 ancestor lookups, free online resources, preserving family heritage, local family history authors, and a free drawing for an ancestry DNA kit. The LCHS will give demonstrations on how we preserve history, from microfilm of historic newspapers to preserving that shoebox of photos in your attic. Bring your home movie film reels to have them cleaned and inspected by the North Lincoln County Historical Museum and see some digitized footage of home movies in our county on the big screen in our theater. We will also feature info on all the museums in our county. Come find out more about your family heritage and how to better preserve it for future generations!
Join us at the Pacific Maritime Heritage Center on Saturday, September 12th from 1pm-4pm for a program on cultural heritage in our county in conjunction with our current exhibits, Oregon Voices and Currents in Lincoln County. The program will start with guest speaker, author and historian Ted Cox, speaking about the Toledo Incident, with updated information along with the most recent edition of his book on the subject. Next, we will screen an Ebb & Flow documentary produced by the Lincoln County Historical Society and Visual Thinking Northwest on the history of the Siletz Tribe. “The Siletz Story” features interviews with tribal leaders, Bud Lane and Delores Pigsley, as they recount the history of the tribe. Then we will feature vibrant traditional Mexican dances by Ballet Folklorico Oregon Coast. Following the dance performance, we will have snacks and refreshments available. This event is free to the public and donations are suggested.
Join audiobook narrator, Heather Henderson, for live readings from The Curve of Time, by M. Wilie Blanchet on Friday, July 17th at 6pm. This historical Pacific Northwest maritime memoir follows Blanchet’s trips she took with her children in the 1920s-1930s in a 25-foot cabin cruiser, Caprice. Heather has won national awards as a voice actress and has narrated hundreds of commercials and over one hundred audiobooks. The Curve of Time is a classic of regional literature and is perfect for the setting of the Pacific Maritime Heritage Center’s Doerfler Family Theater which overlooks Yaquina Bay and the Pacific Ocean.
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Heather Henderson is an award-winning voice actress, writer and researcher. After graduating from the University of Oregon and then earning a Master’s in English at the University of Washington, she entered the Yale School of Drama for four years, earning her Doctorate of Fine Arts degree in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism. She spent her early career working as a publicist, dramaturg, and arts journalist. Her features, reviews and poems have appeared in newspapers and magazines on both coasts; her dramaturgy credits include the 1987 Broadway world premiere of August Wilson’s Fences.
“. . . Both her writing and the places she writes about are magical. I’ve been captivated by this book since the first time I read it many years ago. . . .
. . . just as extraordinary is the woman herself: eloquent, witty, tough, sensitive, sensible, and intrepid. Born in Montréal in 1892, Muriel Wylie Liffiton grew up in a well-to-do family; she attended private school and excelled as a scholar and a rower. She married early, at the age of 18, and shortly afterward she and her husband Geoffrey Blanchet moved to Vancouver Island, settling into a cottage at Curteis Point on the then-remote Saanich Peninsula north of Victoria. They bought a boat – the 25-foot cabin cruiser Caprice – and began to enjoy family outings in it around the shorelines and islands near their home.
In 1926, Geoffrey took Caprice out on a solo camping trip and didn’t return. The boat was found empty, and his body was never recovered . . .
This left Capi a young widow with five children to raise on little more than her own wits and financial creativity. She began taking her children on summer-long sojourns on Caprice. She wrote essays about their trips and ultimately published them as a compilation, The Curve of Time, released just a few months before her death in 1961.
Ernest Bloch – Ambler Through the Redwoods, Agate Beach Rockhound. Annual Music Symposium.
The Lincoln County Historical Society’s Ernest Bloch Legacy Committee will present their annual summer Ernest Bloch Music Symposium at the Pacific Maritime Heritage Center in the Doerfler Family Theater. The program will be on Saturday, July 11, 2026 beginning at 2:30pm. This year’s program is titled “Ernest Bloch: Ambler through the Redwoods, Agate Beach Rockhound.”
Live musical selections of the famous composer’s chamber music will be performed by Shauna Keyes, principal violist of the Newport Symphony and Constance Jackson, Portland based pianist. Lucienne Allen, one of the Great granddaughters of Ernest Bloch, will be sharing interesting and fun stories about her great grandfather and the Bloch family. Alexander Knapp, renowned Bloch scholar and musicologist, will share insights about the composer’s music. The overall theme of the presentations will be Bloch’s well-known love of nature and his obsessive collecting and polishing of agates that he found below his home that was situated above Agate Beach in Newport.
A reception will follow with mushroom coffee served, in honor of Bloch’s famous hobby for foraging wild mushrooms. Admission is free.
From left to right: Ernest Bloch in 1956, Lucienne Allen, Shauna Keyes, Constance Jackson and Alexander Knapp.
