Because of the generous participation of sixty-eight museum members and friends, our recent campaign to raise funds to replace our building’s deteriorating roof resulted in $12,385 in much needed contributions. These donations, combined with a $10,000 grant from the Oregon Community Foundation (OCF), and reserves prudently held in our emergency building fund enabled the museum to replace the entire roof with new materials in September 2016 at a cost of $32,844. We thank the contractor Jagow and Son Roofing for accommodating our needs and an outstanding job completed in a timely and cost efficient manner. We especially thank our members and friends, listed below, whose gifts were vital to the success of the project and enabled the museum to keep its mission alive, serving the public and the community as a nonprofit historical and educational resource. Thank you:
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Lloyd & Marlene Ankeny
Lucille Bacon
Linda Beach
William Boyce
Joseph Burbon
Sandra Killam Brenzel
Dorinda Brush
Lynn & Pat Churchill
Judy & Russ Cleveland
Sheila & Sherman Coventry
Diane Disse
Geraldine Eckardt
Tom Edwards
C. Noreikis & J. Erlanger
Carol Forbes
George Fogarty
Thelma Gardner
Gloria Garland
Geisik Realty
Barb & Mike Halferty
Anne Hall
Lois Hartwig
Richard & Priscilla Hawkins
Patricia Herringer
Muriel Hicks
Lori Hollingsworth
C. T Holman
Milton Huff
Susan Jenkins
Barbara Jenkins-Gibson
Ed Johann
Don Johnson
Betty Jones
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Bonnie Kittleson
Charles Koski
Nova Longtain
Melissa Madenski
Jean Majoska
Danell & Larry Martin
Lana McCullough
Gordon & Patsy McLean
John Morgan
Ann Murdock
Brice Niemi
Sener & Julie Otrugman
Connie & Pete Owston
Pacific West Ambulance
William & Betty Pendarvis
Sandra Petty
Jim & Evelyn Phelps
Dave & Linda Pompel
Joanna Quade
Susan & Italo Rebecchi
Deirdre Reynolds
Georgia Roelof
Mary Bea Sakraida
Joan Schneider
Nick & Janet Simpson
George & Marie Staley
Sung Harbor Bar & Grill
Joe & Mary Thimm
Ron Tierney
John & Alyce Tuttle
Beverly Ulbricht
Jodi & Gary Weber
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Tickets are on sale now for the North Lincoln County Historical Museum’s fourth annual Bongo Bingo “fun raiser”. Join us at the Eventuary to find out how bongos and bingo combine to create an unusual and highly enjoyable bingo experience. This event will take place on Sunday, April 2nd from 1 pm to 3 pm.
Tickets, available in advance, are $20 and include fifteen traditional bingo games as well as door prizes. Additional bingo game cards are available for $10 each. Winners will choose from a variety of prizes, including dinners at local restaurants and motel stays. Since this is the 30th Anniversary of the museum’s opening, we will also have special games with “30” themed prizes and 30th Anniversary buttons and pens.
Food and beverages are available for purchase at the Eventuary, located at 560 SW Fleet Avenue in the Delake district of Lincoln City, next to US Bank. Nearby parking is available at the bank, as well as at the Eventuary itself.
For advance ticket sales or more information, call 541-996-6614 or come by the museum at 4907 SW HWY 101 in Lincoln City. Seating is limited. Any unsold tickets will be available at the door.
Author Steve Griffiths will discuss and read from his new book, Guerrilla Priest: An American Family in World War II Philippines, at the North Lincoln County Historical Museum at one p.m. on Saturday, March 25th.
Griffiths based his book on the unpublished accounts that his parents each wrote of their wartime experiences in the Philippines. After his parents and sister were liberated from a Japanese prisoner of war camp in Manila in February 1945, they came to Nelscott to recover from their wartime ordeal.
Guerrilla Priest captures a special moment in the history of the Pacific War: the formation of the first guerrilla resistance against the Japanese in northern Luzon. Episcopal priest Al Griffiths, gold miner Walter Cushing, and Chief Puyao of the Tingguian tribe were key figures in this resistance. Guerrilla Priest describes the events that led to the ambush at Lamonan—disastrous for the Japanese—and the aftermath of that ambush for those who participated.
Guerrilla Priest also provides an intimate glimpse of the American colonial experience in the Philippines, and perhaps most significantly, it tells the story of how a young American family, Al Griffiths, his wife Nessie, and their infant daughter Katy, managed to survive a horrific war.
During the months they spent in Nelscott after the war, Al and Nessie Griffiths were grateful that neighbors and friends rarely asked them about their wartime ordeal. They both wanted to put the experience behind them. But Al and Nessie each wrote an account of their ordeal for their children to have—their daughter Katy, who shared the experience with them, and their son Steve, who was born after the war. Author Griffiths has shaped his parents’ memoirs into a compelling and moving read.
Dancing Moon Press in Newport, Oregon, published Guerrilla Priest in 2016. It is available for sale on Amazon. Copies may also be purchased at the event.
Because of the generous participation of sixty-eight museum members and friends, our recent campaign to raise funds to replace our building’s deteriorating roof resulted in $12,385 in much needed contributions. These donations, combined with a $10,000 grant from the Oregon Community Foundation (OCF), and reserves prudently held in our emergency building fund enabled the museum to replace the entire roof with new materials in September 2016 at a cost of $32,844. We thank the contractor Jagow and Son Roofing for accommodating our needs and an outstanding job completed in a timely and cost efficient manner. We especially thank our members and friends, listed below, whose gifts were vital to the success of the project and enabled the museum to keep its mission alive, serving the public and the community as a nonprofit historical and educational resource. Thank you:
Tickets are on sale now for the North Lincoln County Historical Museum’s fourth annual Bongo Bingo “fun raiser”. Join us at the Eventuary to find out how bongos and bingo combine to create an unusual and highly enjoyable bingo experience. This event will take place on Sunday, April 2nd from 1 pm to 3 pm.
