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 […]
Roseau County Museum Receives Lighting Grant
The 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 big year for the museum. The museum was […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – May 2019
Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded April 2019 May 5 & 12, 2019, The story I’ll be sharing today was written for a Roseau Elementary School assignment in the 4th grade class of teacher Sara Olson in 2006. The author was Mary Przekwas, and she wrote about someone […]
Lighting Project
If you have ever been to the museum you might remember that the gallery was fairly dark. There is a reason for that but we have heard several patrons mention the lighting being too dark over the year. Lighting is one of the most critical elements in the museum environment. Proper lighting not only protects […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – April 2019
Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded April 2019 April 7, 2019, In 1918, Roseau County had many young people involved with World War I, and many casualties. It’s hard to imagine the anxiety of parents in those days when you had to wait weeks sometimes to get a […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – March 2019
Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded March 2019 The month of March 2019 Shiela Winstead tells the story of Earl Chapin’s interview with Dr. Laurence Parker and many of his acquaintances in Roseau County to create a story about Dr. Parker which was included in Hazel Wahlberg’s book, […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – Feburary 2019
Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded February 2019 February 3 This story comes from a book at the Roseau County Museum, created and edited in 2016 by Dennis Green. These are the some Memories of Swift written by Ray Green included in that book. Some of the stories […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – January 2019
Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded January 2019 January 6 In 1919 after the World War had finally ended and our servicemen were coming home, the Red Cross was still working to make their lives better. This article appeared in the Roseau Times-Region of January 24, of 1919. […]
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