Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded October 2018 October 7 A story about a fire that could’ve been a lot worse had it not been for a switchboard operator. The headline is “Fire Gutted Nelson Café.” Here’s the story from the newspaper: An alert telephone operator, Mrs. Luella Jensen, […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded September 2018 September 2, 9, 16 A continued story from Marcella Eklund Woidtke’s story of her mother’s family. Her mother was Emily Nelson Erickson, and Emily’s parents, Arne and Mathilde Nelson, were born in Norway and emigrated to the US, and then settled […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded August 2018 August 5 A lot of people came to see the Roseau County Museum’s exhibit at the county fair where the museum had a display of medical equipment and posters telling about some of the doctors that worked in Roseau. One person […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded July 2018 July 1 The continued story of Jens Pederson from Greenbush, which was included in Book II of “Pioneers! O Pioneers!”, a publication by Roseau County Historical Society. Jens started logging with his father when he was old enough, about 15 or […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded June 2018 June 3 Last week Sheila started reading from an article in a 1982 Roseau Times-Region in the archives of the Roseau County Museum.  Elmer and Rose Holland were celebrating their 50th anniversary that year and were interviewed for the newspaper. Elmer […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded May 2018 May 6 Reading continue from Carl Listug’s story that is filed in the research area of the Roseau County Museum. Today listen about the early days of the settlement of this region. “The white settlers cleared the land, raised crops, built […]

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 […]