Oregon Coast Learning Institute

God, Guns, Gays, and Affirmative Action - Brent Burford
2023-09-05
This first presentation of the term will look at some of the interesting recent and upcoming decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court. From the Harvard affirmative action case, to the question of whether a business can deny service to same-sex couples, to an upcoming case on the limits of the Second Amendment, we will look at the background and issues of these cases. A question-and-answer period will follow.

Annual Meeting
2023-03-28 09:30 - 10:30, 2023-03-28 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)

Psilocybin in Oregon
2023-03-21 11:10 - 12:30 | Chapel by the Sea, 2125 SE Lee Avenue, Lincoln City, 97367
Presented by Angela Allbee

David Douglas
2023-03-21 09:30 - 10:50 | Chapel by the Sea, 2125 SE Lee Avenue, Lincoln City, 97367
Presented by Rick Mark

History of the Spruce Goose
2023-03-14 11:10 - 12:30 | Chapel by the Sea, 2125 SE Lee Avenue, Lincoln City, 97367
Presented by Bruce Bothwell

The Suffragettes
2023-03-07 11:10 - 12:30 | Chapel by the Sea, 2125 SE Lee Avenue, Lincoln City, 97367
Presented by Evelyn, Gail, Fanny and Kelly
You will get to know five ladies who created a way for women to vote. These women are not common household names. You will get to know them and their contributions to the suffrage story.

Oregon History: Pre-Human through Oregon Trail
2023-03-07 09:30 - 10:50 | Chapel by the Sea, 2125 SE Lee Avenue, Lincoln City, 97367
Presented by Bob Setterberg

Healthy Tips and Tamales
2023-02-28 11:10 - 12:30 | Chapel by the Sea, 2125 SE Lee Avenue, Lincoln City, 97367
Presented by Beatrice Botello

Mayan Culture
2023-02-28 09:30 - 10:50 | Chapel by the Sea, 2125 SE Lee Avenue, Lincoln City, 97367
Presented by John Daigle

I-400Japanese Secret Aircraft-Carrying Strike Sub
2023-02-21 09:30 - 10:50 | Chapel by the Sea, 2125 SE Lee Avenue, Lincoln City, 97367
Presented by Gary Nila

Our Ocean, Our Coast, Your Aquarium
2023-02-07 11:10 - 12:30
Presented by Dr. Kerry Carlin-Morgan and Molly Dumas
What’s going on at the Aquarium? Construction projects updates and what’s new with exhibits.

Frank Lloyd Wright
2023-02-07 09:30 - 10:50
Presented by Bud Varty

JFK Assassination
2023-01-24 09:30 - 10:50 | Chapel by the Sea, 2125 SE Lee Avenue, Lincoln City, 97367
Presented by Dr. Jay Cox
Hear about Dr. Jay Cox’s role as the Officer of the Day at Bethesda Naval Hospital on the day JFK’s body was brought in for autopsy.

Sailing By Starlight
2023-01-17 11:10 - 12:30 | Chapel by the Sea, 2125 SE Lee Avenue, Lincoln City, 97367
Presented by Rod Scher
In the early 1980s, retired geography professor Marvin Creamer set out to do something that hadn’t been done for 1000 years — if ever. He left his home in Cape May, NJ and set out across the Atlantic in his 35′ sailboat, determined to sail around the world, using no instruments at all. Creamer had with him no sextant, no LORAN, not even a compass. Sailing by Starlight is the true story of how Marv and his crew sailed around the world using just their brains, their skills, their senses . . . and maybe a bit of luck.

Author bio:

Rod Scher is a writer with many books and magazine articles to his credit. His books include Sailing by Starlight, Leveling the Playing Field, and annotations of Joshua Slocum’s classic Sailing Alone Around the World and Richard Henry Dana’s Two Years Before the Mast. Rod lives in Depoe Bay, OR with his wife, Lesley, and spends much of the summer traveling the West Coast in a small motorhome.

Chamber Music Through a Clarinetist's Eyes
2023-01-10 11:10 - 12:30 | Chapel by the Sea, 2125 SE Lee Avenue, Lincoln City, 97367
Presented by Lisa Lipton, Executive Director of the Newport Symphony

Martin Luther King's Letter From the Birmingham Jail
2023-01-10 09:30 - 10:50 | Chapel by the Sea, 2125 SE Lee Avenue, Lincoln City, 97367
Presented by Brent Burford

Antonio Gaudi, Architect
2022-11-22 09:30 - 10:50 | Chapel by the Sea, 2125 SE Lee Avenue, Lincoln City, 97367
Presented by Paul Brookhyser.
