Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded January 2020 January 5, 2020: Today’s story comes from a 1998 issue of the Reader, which was a small Roseau County newspaper. The story was written by Jeri Thompson. The year was 1939. A young writer by the name of Jack Alexander […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded December 2019 December 1, 2019: I’ll read from the book the Roosevelt community published to celebrate its 100th anniversary. It’s the story about their Community Christmas party. Our story starts many years ago, with a local gentleman, who had a love for […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded November 2019 November 3, 2019: Another interesting story comes from the Roosevelt Centennial Book, a copy of which is in the Roseau County Museum. This one was called “One Man’s Portrait” and was told by Knute Oseid in 1983. Roosevelt’s original residents […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded October 2019 October 6, 2019: Today I’ll read from the book created by the community of Roosevelt to commemorate its 100th year, 2006. The story is about life in a logging camp. Camps were so varied, that it is hard to get […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded August 2019 August 4, 2019, About 70 years ago, a tragedy occurred on Lake of the Woods. It was written about in the Roseau Times-Region of June 23, 1949, and I’ll read that article to you today. Ernest Klema, a Roseau farmer, […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded July 2019 June 7, 14, 21, & 28, 2019, Albin Zabrocki, a Greenbush man born in 1914 wrote two memoirs describing for his younger descendants the way things were done in the days of his youth. In this series of stories, Sheila […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded June 2019 June 2, 9, 16, 23, & 30, 2019, Albin Zabrocki, a Greenbush man born in 1914 wrote two memoirs describing for his younger descendants the way things were done in the days of his youth. In this series of stories, […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded April 2019 May 5 & 12, 2019, The story I’ll be sharing today was written for a Roseau Elementary School assignment in the 4th grade class of teacher Sara Olson in 2006. The author was Mary Przekwas, and she wrote about someone […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded April 2019 April 7, 2019, In 1918, Roseau County had many young people involved with World War I, and many casualties. It’s hard to imagine the anxiety of parents in those days when you had to wait weeks sometimes to get a […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded March 2019 The month of March 2019 Shiela Winstead tells the story of Earl Chapin’s interview with Dr. Laurence Parker and many of his acquaintances in Roseau County to create a story about Dr. Parker which was included in Hazel Wahlberg’s book, […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded February 2019 February 3 This story comes from a book at the Roseau County Museum, created and edited in 2016 by Dennis Green. These are the some Memories of Swift written by Ray Green included in that book. Some of the stories […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded January 2019 January 6 In 1919 after the World War had finally ended and our servicemen were coming home, the Red Cross was still working to make their lives better. This article appeared in the Roseau Times-Region of January 24, of 1919. […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded December 2018 December 2 In 1954 on this same date the Roseau Times-Region had this interesting story about a boy lost in the woods during hunting season. Robert Torgerson may be only 15 years old, but he proved last week he has a […]

Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded November 2018 November 4 From the September 1, 1955 issue of the Roseau Times-Region comes a story about the Jacklin Mill in Roseau, which apparently was being dismantled that year. Old Mill Part of Local Life. 1893 was a long time ago and […]

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 […]