Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded October 2020 October 4 & 11, 2020: One of Moranville Township’s schools was written about in the Warroad Pioneer on November 29, 2000. It was Isabelle Weitemier’s memories of school days in Moranville. Here is her story: I attended District 82, commonly […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – September 2020
Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded September 2020 September 6, 2020: It’s time for school to start again. I hope all goes well for whatever method of school your family will be using this year during this time of Covid-19. Recently I posted some photos on FaceBook of […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – August 2020
Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded July 2020 August 2, 2020: This story of William and Mary Geroy comes from Ray Geroy’s 1979 book “Sandridge Settlers” about the original settlers of part of what is now known as the Beltrami Island Forest. Bill Geroy came to the River […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – July 2020
Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded July 2020 July 5, 2020: The Greenbush Theatre started in the Village Hall in 1924 and was managed by William “Bill” Paulson. Besides managing the theatre, he was a rural mail carrier like his father before him. In 1930 sound equipment was installed […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – June 2020
Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded June 2020 June 7, 2020: My Aunt Marilyn Kvien Flaten died in January of this year. Today would’ve been her 89th birthday and I’ll read a little bit from some of her memoirs she wrote for her girls. I was born June […]
Lighting Project Update
The lighting project is really starting to progress over the last couple of weeks. It started off a bit slow with the museum closure due to Governor Walz’s Stay at Home order and trying to figure out how to handle that situation, then back-ordered items or wrong parts that arrived. Bergstrom’s Inc. of Wannaska has […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – May 2020
Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded May 2020 May 3, 2020: Today I’ll be sharing another polio survivor’s story. This is about Carolyn Sabourin. She grew up in Malung, the daughter of Bob and Irene Snow. She had an older sister, Cindy, and a twin sister, Cherlyn. Carolyn […]
Summer Explorers Canceled
We are saddened to have to do it but with all the precautions that would have to be in place to keep everyone safe, it is just not possible. Summer Explorers 2020 youth programming has been canceled for the summer. Given all the COVID-19 restrictions in place, the number of children that usually attend, and […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – April 2020
Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded April 2020 April 5, 2020: Roseau has been lucky to have a bakery in town for much of its history. I was looking through some newspapers at the Roseau County Museum a while ago and found information about business changes taking place […]
Sunday Morning Radio Reading – March 2020
Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded March 2020 March 1, 2020: Modern highways have greatly changed transportation by automobile. Travel is vastly different from what it was in 1927 when Andrew Rasmussen made a trip to Pipestone in a Model T Ford. So different that his story about […]
Temporarily Closed
Roseau County Historical Society & Museum Public Announcement March 17, 2020 On March 16, Minnesota Governor Walz released an emergency executive order to close “places of public accommodation” March 17 – 27, directing museums to close to the public. The museum will be closed to the public starting at 5:00 pm, March 17 through […]
Roseau Stone Returns to Roseau County
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 […]