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 – February 19, 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 – February12, 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 […]
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 29, 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 22, 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 15, 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 […]
MN History Contest Held
The NW Minnesota Sixth Grade History Contest was held on May 5th. Seven area schools participated by taking a Minnesota history test at the Roseau City Center. The contest has taken place for 40 years and is compiled by the Roseau County Historical Society. Trophies and cash awards were presented to the top six students. […]
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 […]
Minnesota History Contest
The 37th Annual NW Minnesota Sixth Grade History Contest was held on May 10th, at the Roseau City Center, with six area schools participating. The contest is sponsored by the Roseau County Historical Society. Trophies and cash awards were presented to the top six students. The cash awards are sponsored by Border State Bank – […]
Roseau County Historical Society 90th Annual Meeting
Roseau County Historical Society’s 90th Annual Meeting features Michael Meuers, author of Road to Ponemah: The Teachings of Larry Stillday. The meeting is April 6, 2017, at the Roseau City Center. Starting at 5:45 pm a brief meeting, 6 pm a catered dinner served by Shirley Flick of Warroad. Dinner includes chicken wild rice hotdish, fresh […]
Road to Ponemah: The Teachings of Larry Stillday
Roseau County Historical Society’s 90th Annual Meeting features Michael Meuers, author of Road to Ponemah: The Teachings of Larry Stillday. The meeting is April 6, 2017, at the Roseau City Center. Starting at 5:45 pm a brief meeting, 6 pm a catered dinner served by Shirley Flick of Warroad. Dinner includes chicken wild rice hotdish, fresh […]
Museum Musings
Where does the time go? It seems like just a couple months ago we were preparing the first edition of the new newsletter. Now we are to December and looking ahead to events and exhibits in 2016. But first, let me fill you in on our summer. It has been busy with Summer Explorer youth […]