Join us at North Lincoln County Historical Museum (NLCHM) for Oregon Coast Home Movie Day 2025 on Saturday, October 18^th, 2025 from 1PM – 4PM. This event is free and open to the public!

Home Movie Day is celebrated worldwide. It is a fun interactive event, where you can learn about different small gauge movie formats, get your own family movies inspected and repaired by film archivists, learn how to preserve and protect your films, and get recommendations for digitization. The best part is watching your own family’s precious memories on the big screen! NLCHM will also be projecting films from their own collection, including footage of Lincoln City and other Oregon Coast locations in the 1950s and 1960s.

8mm, super-8mm, and 16mm films are accepted day of on a first come, first served basis. If you want to guarantee a spot, you can drop off your films prior to the event at NLCHM, 4907 SW HWY 101, Lincoln City, Wednesday – Saturday 11AM-4PM. If you are interested in getting VHS, hi8, MiniDV or other media inspected and screened, please contact NLCHM as soon as possible!

If you would like more information or are interested in volunteering at the event, please email: director@nlchm.org.

Kept in museum storage since 1989, this beautiful quilt held the key to unravelling the forgotten story of Ziller Smith, a Black woman who moved to Oregon around 1900. Until the quilt’s rediscovery in 2024, Ziller’s life had been omitted from the historical record.

Join us on September 18^th at 5:30 PM at the North Lincoln County Historical Museum for a talk by Executive Director Christopher Melton. He will share the steps he took to trace the history of the quilt, uncover evidence of its maker, and imagine what Ziller’s life might have been like in early 20^th-century Oregon.

The quilt will be on view in the Anne Hall Gallery on the museum’s second floor from September 18^th 2025, through March 2026. This exhibit will interpret details in the quilt, outline what we’ve been able to prove about Ziller’s journey from Missouri to Lostine, OR. The exhibit will provide concrete evidence of her life, while also exploring the question: What can we learn from an artifact when documentation is impossible to find?

This project was made possible with the support of Oregon Black Pioneers, and an earlier iteration of this presentation was a part of Black History Quest.