Join us at North Lincoln County Historical Museum (NLCHM) for Home Movie Day 2026 on Saturday, October 17th, 2026 from 11AM – 4PM. This event is free and open to the public!
Home Movie Day is celebrated worldwide. It is a fun interactive event, with a screening and workshop. Bring your films to watch on the big screen, and play Home Movie Day Bingo to win prize! Alongside the screening, film preservation professionals will be on hand to help you learn about different small gauge movie formats, get your own movies inspected, cleaned and repaired, learn how to preserve and protect your films, and get recommendations for digitization. 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 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!
Love and Landscapes celebrates the intertwined lives and creative legacies of artist Ruth Dennis Grover (1912–2003) and artist & author Martha Kay Renfroe (1938–2016), known to readers as M. K. Wren. For decades the two women shared a home in Roads End and played important roles in shaping Lincoln City’s cultural life. Grover helped establish and nurture the region’s art community through teaching, organizing exhibitions, and supporting institutions such as the Lincoln County Art Center, while Renfroe gained national recognition for her mystery and science-fiction novels. Together, they found inspiration in the dramatic scenery of the Oregon Coast and contributed to the artistic identity of the community they called home.
Featuring paintings, sketches, and photographs, the exhibit explores the relationship between place, creativity, and companionship. Visitors will encounter selections from Wren’s acclaimed novel A Gift Upon the Shore (1990), a post-apocalyptic story set in the fictional “Shilo Beach,” a literary reflection of Lincoln City and Roads End. Through art and literature, Love and Landscapes examines how two creative women interpreted the same coastline, finding beauty, meaning, and inspiration in the landscapes that surrounded them.
The exhibit will be open June 17th – December 30th, 2026.
As a part of Lincoln City Community Days we will be supporting Family Promise with historical questions and witty quips a Trivia Night at the Pines Dine. Test your knowledge of Lincoln City’s history and how it’s connected to our local ecology. There will be fun prizes for our winners!
Visit NLCHM that afternoon to refresh your memory (we close at 4pm), then head on over to Pines Dine across the Oregon Coast Highway to grab some dinner from one of the 13 amazing food trucks on site!
$10 to enter, and we will start at 5:00 pm and will wrap things up by 7:00 pm on Friday, April 24, 2026!
