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 shelters for themselves and the livestock, and soon had plenty to eat and a house to live in. The Indians moved around. They lived with their families all winter. There was lots of fish in Roseau River, and if the Indians and white men also did not get enough fish in Roseau River, they went to White Mouth Lake in Canada and they got some of their meat from north of the border also…
May 13 Today’s story appeared in the Roseau Times-Region on July 3, 1999, and was written by Anne Dostal in memory of her Grandma Mary Dostal.
May 20 In the Roseau Times-Region issued January 27, 1982, there was a story about Roseau’s shoe repairman, Bill Wilberg. It showed him in his workshop by some of his equipment and said that he’d been on the job for 45 years at that time.
Bill Wilberg started a shoe shop in Roseau 45 years ago, “learning as I went along,” he told the Times-Region, and today he still operates the business which is one of the few remaining shoe repair shops in this part of the state…
May 27 This story is about one of the old-timers that helped with that work in Roseau County. His name was Elmer Holland and this article about him and his wife Rose appeared in the February 10, 1982, issue of Roseau Times-Region about the time they celebrated their 50th anniversary. Here it is: Elmer Holland and Rose Hulst met at a school basket social in Stafford Township and they don’t remember whether or not he bought her basket … but it was evident he took to her because he courted her by Model T and horse and sleigh, bringing her before Judge Henry Hagen on February 4, 1932, when they were married…
Thank you to for letting us share the history of our county with your listeners.