Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded September 2021 September 5, 2021: A tragedy in 1926 led to the new leadership of the Standard Oil station in Roseau. The Roseau Times-Region of July 2, 1926, told the story. Finding of the body of Axel Sundin, Standard Oil agent here, […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded August 2021 August 1, 2021: Recently at the Roseau County Museum, I decided to look back at some old newspapers from about the time Roseau County was newly organized, about 125 years ago. There were a lot of advertisements for businesses in […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded July 2021 July 4, 2021: I shared these newspaper stories with you 7 years ago, but it’s the perfect day to read them again. Have a safe and fun 4th of July. Many of the small communities had their own celebrations of […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded June 2021 June 6, 2021: We don’t think so much about them these days, but in 1944, cattails became an important crop here, and men, women, and children were going out into lowlands to pick the free crop. Harvesters were gathering good wages […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded May 2021 May 2, 2021:  The Community Hall in Badger was built in 1931 to replace the structure that previously had burnt during a devastating fire in 1927 that took out what was called the Sjoberg Block. One of the buildings that […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded April 2021 April 4, 2021: This is Sheila Winstead speaking on behalf of the Roseau County Historical Society. When my oldest son was graduating from high school, he applied for some scholarships for college and one of them was a Vernon Pick […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded March 2021 March 7, 2021: A short time ago, I was in the Roseau County Museum looking at some old newspapers to find new stories to read on this broadcast. Across from me sat Mike Hetteen looking through a large collection of Polaris […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded February 2021 February 7, 2021:  One hundred years ago, in April 15, 1921, issue of the Roseau Times-Region, a story told about a fellow from the Moranville area who had gotten himself into some trouble. Sheriff O. A. Rice returned on Wednesday […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded January 2021 January 3, 10, 17, 24, &, 31, 2021:  Listen to the rest of Jean’s stories, January 31 story concludes the history. Roseau County Museum recently received a copy of the autobiography of Jean Duncan Robinson Haugtvedt from one of her […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded December 2020 December 6, 13, 20, & 27, 2020: Sheila continues reading from Jean Haugtvedt’s auto-biography for the month of December. Roseau County Museum recently received a copy of the autobiography of Jean Duncan Robinson Haugtvedt from one of her daughters, Marlys […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded November 2020 November 1, 8, 15, 22, & 29, 2020: Roseau County Museum recently received a copy of the autobiography of Jean Duncan Robinson Haugtvedt from one of her daughters, Marlys Olson. It’s very well-written and interesting. I’ll read some parts of […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded September 2020 September 6, 2020: It’s time for school to start again. I hope all goes well for whatever method of school your family will be using this year during this time of Covid-19. Recently I posted some photos on FaceBook of […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded July 2020 August 2, 2020: This story of William and Mary Geroy comes from Ray Geroy’s 1979 book “Sandridge Settlers” about the original settlers of part of what is now known as the Beltrami Island Forest. Bill Geroy came to the River […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded July 2020 July 5, 2020: The Greenbush Theatre started in the Village Hall in 1924 and was managed by William “Bill” Paulson. Besides managing the theatre, he was a rural mail carrier like his father before him. In 1930 sound equipment was installed […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded June 2020 June 7, 2020:  My Aunt Marilyn Kvien Flaten died in January of this year. Today would’ve been her 89th birthday and I’ll read a little bit from some of her memoirs she wrote for her girls. I was born June […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded May 2020 May 3, 2020: Today I’ll be sharing another polio survivor’s story. This is about Carolyn Sabourin. She grew up in Malung, the daughter of Bob and Irene Snow. She had an older sister, Cindy, and a twin sister, Cherlyn. Carolyn […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded April 2020 April 5, 2020: Roseau has been lucky to have a bakery in town for much of its history. I was looking through some newspapers at the Roseau County Museum a while ago and found information about business changes taking place […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded March 2020 March 1, 2020: Modern highways have greatly changed transportation by automobile. Travel is vastly different from what it was in 1927 when Andrew Rasmussen made a trip to Pipestone in a Model T Ford. So different that his story about […]