Reprinted from the University of Minnesota article by Erik Moore, U of M Archivist. The museum decided to do a soft release of information about the Roseau Stone coming back to Roseau County. This is a great article explaining the history of the stone. Look for more details coming soon. It will be on display […]
Roseau County Museum Receives Large Grant
Preserving the past for the future The Roseau County Museum is in the business of keeping the history along with sharing the history and bringing it to life through stories, exhibits, and programs. We do this to keep history alive and hope it sparks your interest in local history. 2020 is looking to be a […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – February 2020
Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded February 2020 February 2, 2020: I read some stories about Kenny Grand of Roseau recently, and would like to read another one today. This was in the January 1980 issue of the Roseau Times-Region, written on the occasion of his retirement. Kenneth […]
Museum Book Collection
After completing an inventory of books and magazines it was obvious that a significant amount of books had accumulated over the past 92 years. The Collection Committee working with Britt, RCHS Director, determined that we needed to revisit the collection policy and look at decreasing the number of books in our collection. Although not an […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – January 2020
Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded January 2020 January 5, 2020: Today’s story comes from a 1998 issue of the Reader, which was a small Roseau County newspaper. The story was written by Jeri Thompson. The year was 1939. A young writer by the name of Jack Alexander […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – December 2019
Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded December 2019 December 1, 2019: I’ll read from the book the Roosevelt community published to celebrate its 100th anniversary. It’s the story about their Community Christmas party. Our story starts many years ago, with a local gentleman, who had a love for […]
Roseau County Annual Fund Drive
Dear Roseau County Historical Society Members and Friends, When you support the historical society, you support the preservation of Roseau County’s artifacts and history! 2020 marks the 125th anniversary of Roseau County’s creation and the 93rd anniversary of the establishment of Roseau County Historical Society. In April 1927, a group of men met to consider […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – November 2019
Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded November 2019 November 3, 2019: Another interesting story comes from the Roosevelt Centennial Book, a copy of which is in the Roseau County Museum. This one was called “One Man’s Portrait” and was told by Knute Oseid in 1983. Roosevelt’s original residents […]
Indoor Christmas Tree Walk
The 4th Annual Indoor Christmas Tree Walk Plans are well underway for the 2019 Indoor Christmas Tree Walk, scheduled to open the evening of November 25 and display through year-end. The tree walk will be inside the Roseau County Museum located in the Roseau City Center where it is warm and toasty so you can […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – October
Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded October 2019 October 6, 2019: Today I’ll read from the book created by the community of Roosevelt to commemorate its 100th year, 2006. The story is about life in a logging camp. Camps were so varied, that it is hard to get […]
A Scandinavian Christmas & Tree Walk Open House
Catch that Christmas spirit with A Scandinavian Christmas. The program features a group of Scandinavian performers presenting a delightful program of Scandinavian Christmas songs, tunes and dances. A Scandinavian Christmas features Ross Sutter singing and playing guitar, button accordion and dulcimer; Art Bjorngjeld on button accordion and fiddle; Char Bostrum on fiddle and Bruce Bostrum on moon […]
Votes for Women, Ja! program
On October 26 at 1:30 pm the Roseau County Historical Society and Museum presents Jane Skinner Peck in: Votes for Women, Ja! a one-woman theatrical presentation and lecture tracing the pivotal contributions of Nordic immigrant suffragists to voting rights in Minnesota. Presenter Jane Peck is a choreographer, historian, writer, and professor. Her own female Norwegian […]
A Century of Civic Engagement Traveling Exhibit Opens
A Century of Civic Engagement: The League of Women Voters Minnesota The Minnesota Legislature finally voted YES on September 8, 1919, to ratify the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution, granting women the right to vote and ending the 72-year struggle for woman suffrage. But as distinguished Minnesota suffragist Clara Ueland said that day, “Today […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – September 2019
Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded September 2019 September 1, 8, 15, 22, 2019, This year, the First Lutheran Church in Salol celebrated the 100th anniversary of its organization. On July 6, 1944, when it was only 25 years old, Roseau Times-Region published an article of its history. […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – August 2019
Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded August 2019 August 4, 2019, About 70 years ago, a tragedy occurred on Lake of the Woods. It was written about in the Roseau Times-Region of June 23, 1949, and I’ll read that article to you today. Ernest Klema, a Roseau farmer, […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – July 2019
Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded July 2019 June 7, 14, 21, & 28, 2019, Albin Zabrocki, a Greenbush man born in 1914 wrote two memoirs describing for his younger descendants the way things were done in the days of his youth. In this series of stories, Sheila […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – June 2019
Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded June 2019 June 2, 9, 16, 23, & 30, 2019, Albin Zabrocki, a Greenbush man born in 1914 wrote two memoirs describing for his younger descendants the way things were done in the days of his youth. In this series of stories, […]
Summer Explorers Youth programming
Summer is in full force and we are busy at the museum! Our visitor count definitely picks up in the summer with visitors from all over, researchers, and kids… a whole bunch of kids. We love having the kids come and visit and bring in their adults. In the summer, we do programs for the […]
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