Listen to the Weekly Radio Readings by Sheila Winstead, RCHS Board Member
Recorded October 2017
October 1 The beginning of the Bi-National Airport in the Pinecreek area which started out on the United States side only.
October 8 A reading from Marshall Wiskow’s booklet, The Steam Whistle. It was sold as a souvenir at the Northland Steam Threshing Bee.
October 15 from August 22, 1913, Greenbush Tribune articles. The title is, The Twister of August 1913.
October 22 In July of 1943, the Greenbush Tribune reported the worst wind storm to hit this section in the 34 years that we have lived here. This would include the big tornado of 1913 that damaged the fine ,new Haug School. But unlike the 1913 storm, this storm took no human life.
October 29 A story about Halloween shenanigans of the olden days from the book written in 1973 by Arnold Grefthen.
Thank you to Wild 102 FM for letting us share the history of our county with your listeners.