Book Signing

Please join us Saturday, September 29th for a day of exciting happenings at the Coos Historical & Maritime Museum. We are opening our latest exhibit and hosting Lionel Youst as he speaks on his recent publication.

Youst Booksigning

Saturday, September 29th, 1pm

Lionel Youst will appear at the Coos Historical & Maritime Museum at 1 p.m. on Saturday, September 29th, to discuss his latest literary achievement Progressive Thoughts. Youst will focus his talk on the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W. or "Wobblies"). Youst learned about the I.W.W. first hand from his father who—like many other laborers—joined the I.W.W. to fight for an eight-hour working day and better conditions in the logging camps of the Northwest. Workers on the new railroad from Eugene to Coos Bay (also) joined the I.W.W. fight in 1913. Youst will describe the historical storm of protests and mob actions against the I.W.W. from Marshfield businessmen which later ensued.




The Big Blow

The Columbus Day Storm 50 Years Later

Opens Saturday, September 29th

The Columbus Day Storm of 1962 (also known as the Big Blow) was an extra tropical cyclone that struck the Pacific Northwest coast on October 12, 1962 . This storm encompassed a 125-mile wide corridor that was 1,000 miles long, killed 24 people in Oregon , and did over $170 million dollars worth of damage. Through photographs and first-hand accounts the Coos Historical and Maritime Museum will recount the events of this terrible storm that the National Weather Service considers "the benchmark of all Pacific Coast windstorms, against which all others are compared."

Admission is FREE on opening day, September 29th