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Celebrate Rothsay! 125th Anniversary Cookbook
Celebrate Rothsay! Cookbook was produced by the Rothsay 125th Anniversary Committee in honor of Rothsay’s 125th birthday in 2008. It is an expanded commemorative cookbook of classic and current family-favorite recipes totaling more than 1,475 recipes from family and friends throughout the Rothsay area.

Included in this cookbook are almost 500 treasured, community-favorite recipes from the 1976 Bicentennial Cookbook that were specifically hand-picked for this publication by the original committee members who first organized the Bicentennial cookbook and by community requests. These classic recipes are denoted in the new cookbook by a special ’76 icon.

Celebrate Rothsay! Cookbook is bound in a sturdy 3-ring binder and has more than 500 pages. The cookbook sells for $20 plus $5 for shipping. To order, call Faith Waldoch at 218-867-2480 or email her. You can also pick up a copy at Ole & Lena's Pizzeria, Mosquito Landing or Oscar Parke Mutual Insurance Company.

Rothsay 125th Anniversary Commemorative Red Wing Crock
Red Wing Stoneware Company has a history producing “American Made” pottery in Red Wing, Minnesota dating back to the middle of the 1860’s. Rothsay shared in this tradition by offering Rothsay 125th Anniversary Red Wing crocks during their 125th anniversary celebration in the summer of 2008. A limited number of crocks are still available for purchase.

The crocks are imprinted on one side with the traditional Red Wing logo and the other with the Rothsay 125th Anniversary logo. Referenced as a size 35 crock, you can use it in the kitchen, office and around the house as a decoration. It makes a perfect pencil or utensil holder! However it is displayed, the Commemorative Rothsay 125th Anniversary Red Wing Crock will serve as a keepsake for years to come.

The crock sells for $25 (there will be an additional shipping charge). To order, call Faith Waldoch at 218-867-2480 or email her. You can also purchase a crock at Mosquito Landing or Oscar Parke Mutual Insurance Company.

Twixt Hill and Prairie
A Century of Challenge in the Rothsay, Minnesota, Area
Gary Wigdahl's book about the history of Rothsay was published in 1982, prior to the Rothsay centennial in 1983. As Wigdahl proclaimed in the preface of the book, "My purpose in writing this book stems from historical curiosity. I have always been interested in history and geography and I soon realized that every community, every township, every county, and even every family has a history." And so, Gary set out to record the history of his small town and its residents, past and present.

Currently a member of the Rothsay, Carlisle, Foxhome area PARTNERS board and a volunteer at the Rothsay Library Link, author, Gary Wigdahl is a former award-winning newspaper editor with the "Grant County Herald" at Elbow Lake, Minnesota, and the "Cambridge Star" at Cambridge, Minnesota.

"Twixt Hill and Prairie: A Century of Challenge in the Rothsay, Minnesota, Area" 1st Edition, 1st printing, 309 pages, published by Holiday Printing. Hardcover with dust jacket. The book sells for $10 (there will be an additional shipping charge). To order, contact Gary Wigdahl or pick up a copy at the PARTNERS office in downtown Rothsay.

From book jacket: "In the beginning there was prairie grass, miles and miles of it waving in the endless wind. In the late 1860s settlers, mostly of Scandinavian descent, began arriving in the Rothsay area to homestead, put down roots, raise families, build schools and worship in familiar ways in an unfamiliar and sometimes alien land. They heard of wars and rumors of wars, begat children who endured the Great Depression and grandchildren who fought in World War II. Great-grandchildren watched men walk on the moon. Rothsay area residents are celebrating their centennial in 1983 with the theme 'A Century of Challenge.' This, then, is their story."