Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded December 2021 December 5, 2021: I’ve been reading from a book I came across at the Roseau County Museum which told about innovators and influencers in the agriculture industry of the Northern Plains. One of the first chapters interviewed Bob Bergland and […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded November 2021 November 7, 2021: Today I’ll continue reading from a document from the Roseau County Museum, which is titled “A Study of Three Chippewa Families at Warroad, Minnesota and their Historical and Cultural Contributions”. It was a thesis by Grace Landin […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded October 2021 October 3, 2021: While looking at some of the history volumes at the Roseau County Museum, I came upon a spiral bound book by Grace Landin dated May 1972, which was a thesis for her Master of Science in Education […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded September 2021 September 5, 2021: A tragedy in 1926 led to the new leadership of the Standard Oil station in Roseau. The Roseau Times-Region of July 2, 1926, told the story. Finding of the body of Axel Sundin, Standard Oil agent here, […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded August 2021 August 1, 2021: Recently at the Roseau County Museum, I decided to look back at some old newspapers from about the time Roseau County was newly organized, about 125 years ago. There were a lot of advertisements for businesses in […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded July 2021 July 4, 2021: I shared these newspaper stories with you 7 years ago, but it’s the perfect day to read them again. Have a safe and fun 4th of July. Many of the small communities had their own celebrations of […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded June 2021 June 6, 2021: We don’t think so much about them these days, but in 1944, cattails became an important crop here, and men, women, and children were going out into lowlands to pick the free crop. Harvesters were gathering good wages […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded May 2021 May 2, 2021:  The Community Hall in Badger was built in 1931 to replace the structure that previously had burnt during a devastating fire in 1927 that took out what was called the Sjoberg Block. One of the buildings that […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded April 2021 April 4, 2021: This is Sheila Winstead speaking on behalf of the Roseau County Historical Society. When my oldest son was graduating from high school, he applied for some scholarships for college and one of them was a Vernon Pick […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded March 2021 March 7, 2021: A short time ago, I was in the Roseau County Museum looking at some old newspapers to find new stories to read on this broadcast. Across from me sat Mike Hetteen looking through a large collection of Polaris […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded February 2021 February 7, 2021:  One hundred years ago, in April 15, 1921, issue of the Roseau Times-Region, a story told about a fellow from the Moranville area who had gotten himself into some trouble. Sheriff O. A. Rice returned on Wednesday […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded January 2021 January 3, 10, 17, 24, &, 31, 2021:  Listen to the rest of Jean’s stories, January 31 story concludes the history. Roseau County Museum recently received a copy of the autobiography of Jean Duncan Robinson Haugtvedt from one of her […]