We have retitled the “Weekly Radio Readings” to “Historic Happenings.” Each week’s story will be posted in its entirety. The stories can also be heard Sunday mornings around 10 am on WILD 102’s “Looking Back in Time” program. Weekly radio stories are researched, compiled, and read by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member. Available recordings will […]
Historic Happenings – March 5, 2023
We have retitled the “Weekly Radio Readings” to “Historic Happenings.” Each week’s story will be posted in its entirety. The stories can also be heard Sunday mornings around 10 am on WILD 102’s “Looking Back in Time” program. Weekly radio stories are researched, compiled, and read by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member. Available recordings will […]
Mink Sink, Swim on Burbot Catch
They lay in the net a seething, writhing mass of slimy, mottled olive-colored bodies steaming in the 30 degree below weather. They gasped and barked out of mouths big enough to stick your fist into. Burbot! Tons and tons of big livered, voracious predatory monsters, their bellies full of suckers, crab and game fish…saviors of […]
Historic Happenings – February 5, 2023
Happy New Year! We hope that 2023 is starting well for everyone. To start the new year, we have retitled the “Weekly Radio Readings” to “Historic Happenings.” Each week’s story will be posted in its entirety. The stories can also be heard Sunday mornings around 10 am on WILD 102’s “Looking Back in Time” program. […]
Historic Happenings – January 8, 2023
Happy New Year! We hope that 2023 is starting well for everyone. To start the new year, we have retitled the “Weekly Radio Readings” to “Historic Happenings”. Each week’s story will be posted in its entirety. The stories can also be heard Sunday mornings around 10 am on WILD 102’s “Looking Back in Time” program. […]
Historic Happenings – January 1, 2023
Happy New Year! We hope that 2023 is starting well for everyone. To start the new year, we have retitled the “Weekly Radio Readings” to “Historic Happenings”. Each week’s story will be posted in its entirety. The stories can also be heard Sunday mornings around 10 am on WILD 102’s “Looking Back in Time” program. […]
Klefstad Clinic of Greenbush
Lloyd Klefsted was born and raised in Duluth, where he graduated from St. Olaf. He attended medical school at Western Reserve University in Cleveland. During WWII, Dr. Klefstad was a ship’s surgeon. Helen graduated as a dietician while in Cleveland. Dr. and Mrs. Klefstad arrived in Greenbush on December 10, 1947, in a Ford […]
County Blizzard March, 1966
County’s Worst Blizzard Hits Here from the Roseau Times-Region March 10, 1966 “Fifteen inches of snow and winds up to fifty miles an hour ties up the entire area. An “old-fashioned blizzard” of unprecedented proportions struck Roseau County last week bringing practically every form of activity to a complete halt by Friday. The band of […]
Roseau County Creameries
During the turn of the century, when Roseau county was in its infancy, many of the early settlers had a few dairy cows. They soon discovered an abundant supply of good grazing and hay meadows. As their herds grew, there came a demand for marketing their surplus butter. They were bringing their home churned […]