The Coos History Museum has a new lecture series and evening opportunity to visit the museum. On first Tuesday evenings, February – November, 6 – 8:30 PM the museum galleries and store are open with the monthly lecture beginning at 6:30 pm at the Museum on Front Street. Admission is $7 for adults; free to CHM members. First Tuesday Talks are sponsored by Al Peirce Co., LLC. with in-kind support from The Mill Casino. On First Tuesday evening April 4, noted historian Richard Engeman will be presenting: Chop Suey for All: Chinese Cooks in Oregon. Description: Chop Suey for All tells the story of the many Chinese immigrants to Oregon who eked out a living cooking. From the 1850s they cooked for other Chinese, for railroad workers and hotel kitchens, and eventually in family-operated restaurants serving Chinese-American foods. From Portland’s Chinatown, to a resort town like Seaside, to remote communities like Huntington and Canyon City, Chinese cooks and their families became part of the state’s social and cultural fabric. Speaker Bio: Richard Engeman is an Oregon historian, archivist, and the author of The Oregon Companion: an Historical Gazetteer of the Useful, the Curious, and the Arcane, and Eating It Up in Eden: the Oregon Century Farm & Ranch Cookbook. He lives in an 1889 house in the Monteith historic district of Albany with a spouse and four cats. The Coos History Museum mission is to create a better understanding of life in Coos County and Oregon’s South Coast, past and present. The Museum is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and receives no direct government support. The museum survives on donations, memberships, grants, museum store sales, special event rentals and legacy/bequest gifts. The Museum is open Tuesday through Sunday from 10am to 5pm, and on the first Tuesday evening of each month. Admission is free for CHM members, active duty military, and NARM members. More information is available at www.cooshistory.org, 541- 756-6320 or you can follow the Museum on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter.
