by Deborah Lobey | Dec 29, 2024 | Fundraising, Posts
MUSEUM LAUNCHES WALL RECONSTRUCTION CAMPAIGN PRESERVING OUR PAST The Siuslaw Pioneer Museum is launching a campaign to save its west wall. Time has taken its toll on our beloved Museum and we are now facing a critical challenge: the west wall has suffered...
by Deborah Lobey | Nov 12, 2024 | Posts
What they hoped to find lay at the bottom of Tahkenitch Lake for 37 years. Local folks may recall that June day in 1987, when a Southern Pacific (“SP”) Railroad train derailed on its daily route between Coos Bay and Eugene. As the 102-car train crossed a trestle on...
by Deborah Lobey | Sep 14, 2024 | Posts
Perhaps resilience can best describe how pioneers met with their everyday challenges and experiences. Such was the case for mail carriers in the Siuslaw Valley during the early1900’s. They were fearless individuals who traversed rough trails often during severe...
by Deborah Lobey | Aug 24, 2024 | Posts
The attempt to reveal stories that touch our lives and connect us to history begins and ends with research. Along the way, it’s the discovery through research that we gain a sense of those bygone days and what life was like for the people who lived it. Our Museum’s...
by Deborah Lobey | Jul 17, 2024 | Posts
FLOOR LOOM DEMONSTRATIONS On the second floor in Jean’s Sewing Room, I was recently introduced to a 1951 wooden floor loom. To the unfamiliar, (such as myself), it commands attention as the largest display in the room. Each of the 528 parallel warp threads are...
by Deborah Lobey | Jun 14, 2024 | Posts
CHEESE, PLEASE Sometimes it can be the one thing or experience that makes all the difference. Such can be said in the case of Jesse Lee Houghton, who found his calling in cheese. In 1890, at 20 years old with an eighth-grade education, he found work as a helper in a...
