Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded April 2018 April 1 One of the ancestors described in the family history of Wayne T. Melby is Martin Tolleivson Tollefson. I found Wayne’s compilation of stories in the Roseau County Museum. It was written in 1986. Considered one of the early pioneers […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded March 2018 March  4 Hear an article in the Warroad Pioneer newspapers from February and March of 1918. The Roseau County Chapter of The Red Cross is broke, financially busted, all the shekels gone from the treasury, as a result of the industry […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded February 2018 February 4 An article from Roseau Times-Region from the 1950s tells a story with this title, “Hetteen Hoist Builds Nationwide Markets”. Throughout the length and breadth of the agricultural states in this country and the farming areas of Canada, a Roseau […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded January 2018 In 1988, Florence (Knochenmus) Klema wrote a booklet about the Casperson School, which is now located at the Roseau Pioneer Farm, 3 miles west of Roseau. The school came originally from Golden Valley Township, southeast of Wannaska. In the preface […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded December 2017 December 3 This story comes from Bert Wenner’s account of growing up as one of 5 sons. December 10 Bert Wenner’s account of his life in Roseau County from the 1920s and during the Depression years. He also wrote about how […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded November 2017 November 5 By this time 100 years ago, life in the county revolved around the needs of World War I. An article appeared in the October 12, 1917, issue of Roseau Times-Region. Horses were needed for the war effort and this article […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded October 2017 October 1 The beginning of the Bi-National Airport in the Pinecreek area which started out on the United States side only. October 8 A reading from Marshall Wiskow’s  booklet, The Steam Whistle. It was sold as a souvenir at the Northland Steam […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded September 2017 September 3 & 10 In 2014, Bert Wenner wrote a story about his family, which is on file in the Roseau County Museum’s family history area. I’ve been reading from that story about the older generations of Bert’s family, and now […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded August 2017 August 6 One of he five Pinecreek, MN settlers,  Lars C. Rugland, also known as Lewis C. Rugland. Much of this story comes from the book “Pioneers, O Pioneers”, compiled by Roseau County Historical Society and Warroad Bicentennial Committee. Other information […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded July 2017 July 2 Last week I read from a 100-year-old edition of the Greenbush Tribune. In that same paper was an informative column on how to wash blankets. It starts with the following heading: Operation Takes Time if Good Work is […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded June 2017 As this is the 100th anniversary of the entry of United States into the Great War, which we now refer to as World War I, I’ll be reading stories of some of the 15 Roseau County servicemen who lost their […]

Listen in to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded May 2017 As this is the 100th anniversary of the entry of United States into the Great War, which we now refer to as World War I, I’ll be reading stories of some of the 15 Roseau County servicemen who lost […]

Listen in to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded April 2017 April 2 This week’s reading continues from a written history of Vernon Russell Sunset called, “The Life & Times of Vernon Russell Sunset”.  Vernon explains their family’s beginnings in Minnesota, starting with grandparents from Norway who took the name Sunset when […]

Listen in to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded March 2017   March 5  reading from an article published in the Roseau Times of July 26, 1895, the first year of Roseau being its own County. This article describes the businesses located in the town of Roseau that year. March […]