Wrapping a blanket around wannaska's early settlers

 

December 30, 2017

Jo Anne with the quilt

Just days before Christmas, Jo Anne Anderson sat in her kitchen in Skime in rural Roseau County and held a quilt made about the same time that the Rough Rider was in the Oval Office.

She spoke in awe about the pioneer women who gave up everything, even their countries of origin, to come to the Wannaska area in the 1890s and early 1900s to homestead with their husbands in some pretty rough conditions.

They were Norwegians and Swedes with names like Bergstrom, Grefthen, Jensen, Olson, Kjallberg, Lee, and Bjorhus.

Alas, there was a smattering of Danes - the Mortensens.

"This quilt was made be...



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