Left to right starting in the back, George Johnson, Bob Taylor, Leland Simpson, Lynda
Hartley, Casey Page, Shelly Allen, Lee Ann Anderson, Lori Gunther, Elijah Hodson,
Hadin Knight, Layne McMillin, Lucy Godin, Jordan Burgess, Kyra Howard, Emily
Arrant, Eric Behnke, Grady Hampel, Tyler Hopkinson, Rhiannon McKinley, Santos
Martinez, J.J. Newman, Cooper Page, Taylor Allen, Abbie Figueroa, Michael Luva,
Desiree Lester, Chloe Henderson, Josey Kaufman


Lincoln School third  graders learn of the past at  Coquille Valley Museum,  May 6, 2009. Former  teacher, administrator and  museum board member  George Johnson’s project is  to have each child visit the  museum before they reach  eighth grade and visit again  before High School graduation.  We continue to get the  most special and unusual  things to put on display.  Donna Parry brought in a  Watchmakers Bench with a  great many drawers for storing  things. An electric motor  had been rigged up to polish  watch parts.

Ed used it for  fly tying and the many  drawers were filled with  hooks, feathers and thread.  We very recently discovered,  in our back room, a  very large aerial picture of  Smith Wood Products in the  1920's. It was amazing to  see the large number of  buildings from the air.  Ed Queen brought in his  dad's high climbing gear;  Kay Elliot, a collection, of  many things. There were  boxes of old valentines, letters  with Post Office marks  of nearly every post office  in Oregon.  Ed & Mary Hall brought  in a huge collection of glass  bottles of many different  shapes, colors and with local  businesses on them.

The  blue bottles are marked poison.  Dave Shaw and his wife,  originally from Powers,  brought in an Indian arrowhead  collection that he  found just south of Powers,  some of the arrowheads are  3 to 5 thousand years old.  A Banding Machine for  china painting originally  belonged to Katherine Ruble  of Coquille, then to Pat  Dalton of Roseburg, then  she returned it to it's original  home in Coquille.  The Coquille Valley  Museum will have a book  signing day at the museum  for Patti Strain and Boyd  Stone’s new books which  should be out shortly from  the printer.  We are planning a get  together of students that  went to Washington Grade  School in Coquille.

We will  meet before the Fireman's  Steak Feed at Sturdivant  Park from 10 a.m. to 12  p.m. at the Museum and  then have a table at the  Steak Feed to tell old stories.  One of our most popular  items at the Coquille Valley  Museum is our Coquille  High School Annuals.  Everyone enjoys checking  out their parents, school  mates, and friends from the  old days. We are missing the  following years and hope  the Sentinel readers can help  us out - We are missing  Annuals for the years, 1919,  1920, 1922, 1929, 1943,  1952, 1970, 1986 and the  late years from 1991 to  2008. We would appreciate  any old annuals that you  might want to contribute to  our collection.  We continue to look for  old photographs that we can  copy and return the originals  from where they came. We  are always interested in  things of interest to our visitors.

Fifty percent of our  visitors are from out of town  and we have some great historical  books, t-shirts and  DVD's for sale. We would  be glad to give you a special  tour and I'm sure that you  will be pleasantly surprised  with the interesting things  we have on display.  We are now open on  Saturdays from 12 p.m. to 4  p.m. but starting Memorial  Day we will be open 5 days  a week, Tuesday thru  Saturday. If you have any  questions call 541-396-2773  or 541-824-0076.