Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member, or tune in to WILD 102 Radio Sunday mornings. Available recordings will be linked to the Wild 102 “Looking Back in Time” page for the rest of the story. If the audio is not available, the entire week’s story will be printed. Recorded […]
Indoor Christmas Tree Walk – Registration Open
Roseau County Museum seeks creative people! The Roseau County Museum is planning for the Sixth Annual Indoor Christmas Tree Walk, which will open on November 29 and run through December 23. Here is your chance to contribute your creativity and decorate a tree to be viewed by visitors over the holidays. We invite organizations, groups, […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – July 2022
Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member, or tune in to WILD 102 Radio Sunday mornings. Starting this month recordings will be linked to the Wild 102 “looking Bac in Time” page for the rest of the story. Recorded July 2022 July 3, 2022: It won’t be long before the […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – June 2022
Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member, or tune in to WILD 102 Radio Sunday mornings. Starting this month recordings will be linked to the Wild 102 “looking Bac in Time” page for the rest of the story. Recorded June 2022 June 5, 2022: As part of a project to […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – May 2022
Listen here to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member or tune in to WiLD 102 Radio Sunday mornings. Recorded May 2022 May 1, 2022: Last week I read a little about Ingvard Sunset, a former curator of the Roseau County Museum. His son Vernon wrote a family history and explained their […]
MN History Contest Held
The NW Minnesota Sixth Grade History Contest was held on April 27th. Six area schools participated by taking a Minnesota history test at the Roseau City Center. The contest has taken place for 41 years and is compiled by the Roseau County Historical Society. Trophies and cash awards were presented to the top six students. The […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – April 2022
Listen here to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member or tune in to WiLD 102 Radio Sunday mornings. Recorded April 2022 April 3, 2022: In a Roseau Times-Region from May 4, 1972, nearly 50 years ago, comes a story of Galena Starren at 86 years old. She lived another 15 years […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – March 2022
Listen here to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member or tune in to WiLD 102 Radio Sunday mornings. Recorded March 2022 March 6, 2022: The Roseau County Museum was recently given a book for its collection by Jim Stordahl. The book is called Tourney Time and has short stories about each […]
Shelving Project Request Proposals
The Roseau County Historical Society is looking to increase its storage. We are currently seeking Requests for Proposals from shelving companies. Learn more Here
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – February 2022
Listen here to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member or tune in to WiLD 102 Radio Sunday mornings. Recorded February 2022 February 6, 2022: The Roseau County Museum has a new book in its collection called Tourney Time, a collection of stories about 75 years of Boys’ High School Hockey Tournaments. […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings on Wild102 – January 2022
Listen here to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member or tune in to WiLD 102 Radio Sunday mornings. Recorded January 2022 January 2, 2022: If anyone listening attended the Old-Fashioned Christmas Open House at the Pioneer Farm west of Roseau in early December, you saw a number of old buildings that […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – December 2021
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 […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – November 2021
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 […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – October 2021
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 […]
Christmas Tree Walk – Opening
The Roseau County Museum is gearing up for the 5th Annual Indoor Christmas Tree Walk. We invite county organizations, groups, businesses, daycares, friends, individuals, etc., to decorate a tree. We supply artificial trees and lights on a first-come basis. You decorate with your unique decorations. The trees must be decorated by November 20. There will […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – September 2021
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, […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – August 2021
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 […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – July 2021
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 […]
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