Listen here to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member or tune in to WiLD 102 Radio Sunday mornings. Recorded May 2022 May 1, 2022: Last week I read a little about Ingvard Sunset, a former curator of the Roseau County Museum. His son Vernon wrote a family history and explained their […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – April 2022
Listen here to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member or tune in to WiLD 102 Radio Sunday mornings. Recorded April 2022 April 3, 2022: In a Roseau Times-Region from May 4, 1972, nearly 50 years ago, comes a story of Galena Starren at 86 years old. She lived another 15 years […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – March 2022
Listen here to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member or tune in to WiLD 102 Radio Sunday mornings. Recorded March 2022 March 6, 2022: The Roseau County Museum was recently given a book for its collection by Jim Stordahl. The book is called Tourney Time and has short stories about each […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – February 2022
Listen here to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member or tune in to WiLD 102 Radio Sunday mornings. Recorded February 2022 February 6, 2022: The Roseau County Museum has a new book in its collection called Tourney Time, a collection of stories about 75 years of Boys’ High School Hockey Tournaments. […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings on Wild102 – January 2022
Listen here to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member or tune in to WiLD 102 Radio Sunday mornings. Recorded January 2022 January 2, 2022: If anyone listening attended the Old-Fashioned Christmas Open House at the Pioneer Farm west of Roseau in early December, you saw a number of old buildings that […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – December 2021
Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded December 2021 December 5, 2021: I’ve been reading from a book I came across at the Roseau County Museum which told about innovators and influencers in the agriculture industry of the Northern Plains. One of the first chapters interviewed Bob Bergland and […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – November 2021
Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded November 2021 November 7, 2021: Today I’ll continue reading from a document from the Roseau County Museum, which is titled “A Study of Three Chippewa Families at Warroad, Minnesota and their Historical and Cultural Contributions”. It was a thesis by Grace Landin […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – October 2021
Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member Recorded October 2021 October 3, 2021: While looking at some of the history volumes at the Roseau County Museum, I came upon a spiral bound book by Grace Landin dated May 1972, which was a thesis for her Master of Science in Education […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – September 2021
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, […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – August 2021
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 […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – July 2021
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 […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – June, 2021
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 […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – May, 2021
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 […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – April 2021
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 […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – March 2021
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 […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – February 2021
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 […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – January 2021
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 […]
Sunday Morning Radio Readings – December 2020
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 […]