Museum tells pioneer story

Come travel down the Siletz River with six-year-old Orrice Brown, her family of five, travel trunks, cookware, washboards, livestock, a pet canary and a terrier named Clyde. The year was 1916 and they were moving from a farm near Corvallis to the northern end of Lincoln County, now known as Roads End. Orrice Brown (Addler) told this epic story in 1993 at the age of 83, some 77 years after the trip.

On Saturday, July 23, North Lincoln County Historical Museum Director Jeff Syrop will guide you on this journey, using the museum's historical photographs, maps and oral histories.

You will see what Orrice and her family would have seen as they traveled on wagon roads, floated down the Siletz River to the town of Taft and took the only "road" north — the beach. After the presentation, you will truly have an understanding of what it was like to move to the coast before the roads and bridges were well established.

The presentation begins at 1 pm at 4907 SW Hwy. 101 in Lincoln City. For more information, go to northlincolncountyhistoricalmuseum.org or call 541-996-6614.