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 […]
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 […]