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Family, Projects & Travel

The history of this family web-site predates Twitter & Facebook. In fact, it pre-dates Google’s full skill-set. When we started this site in the ‘90s it was essentially private to family members, but now Google has made it visible to all. It was never meant to provide the communicational spontaneity of Facebook, but instead to provide a Legacy Storage area accessible to all. We hope that you also see its value in that regard.

This is a collection of hobby projects and travel from the extended Hagen family. We also briefly introduce ourselves and show you our connection to one another and to the projects and trips we’ve featured here. We encourage your participation, contribution and encouragement as we strive to optimize the value of our activities to one another.

The purpose of this web-site is two-fold: 1) To keep cousins from drifting apart; 2) To describe us to distant relatives who are seeking contact. The first has become somewhat unnecessary since most of the cousins have re-located quite closely together, but the second has netted a great share of interest from long-lost relatives from North America and Scandinavia!!!

Since Erin moved to California it’s been darn hard to get the group in the same room at one time for an updated photo. So we did the next best thing by sending a couple travelers out to capture her lounging in the Golden State.

To show what Dave’s been concentrating on since retirement, here’s a photo of a Northern Pike that he caught in NW Ontario in June ’12.

This Site is discontinued. It’s Duration of Operation was 26 years from 1999 to 2025, even though it was structured as a laborious HTML & UNIX format. It will be preserved on my PCs and on Flash Drives at home and at Jeff’s.

Now that we’ve been blessed with a great-grandchild, Malcolm Schaplow, born August 27, 2024, I’m closing down this website and preserving it for posterity. There’s nothing about our lives at this point that can overshadow this event. Should we be blessed with another, and another, I will find a separate method to include those blessed events for posterity as well. Please visit us on Great-Grandson’s Malcolm’s Page:

Malcolm’s Page

You can view a composition of all of Arlyn’s letters from the Front in WW2 to Thelma, interwoven with his full battle history from Army records. This is a powerful document :

Arlyn’s Letters Home To Thelma

You can ‘web surf’ into a closer understanding of who we are or what we’re doing by moving on to these descriptive pages by clicking on these icons:

You can view some of Patty’s ArtWork by clicking here:

Patty O’Brien Hagen’s ArtWork Site

You can follow my hobby “career” as a Nation-Wide Classic Car Broker here :

Classic Cars sold Coast-to-Coast and Border-to-Border

You can inspect our Silverado Pickup for sale by clicking here:

2004 Chevy Silverado Z71 5.3 Liter V8 4WD Off-Road Pickup For Sale

If you have a video playing software you could join us on a ride in our Model A here:

Tom’s Model A Video

Or you could join us in a SpudGun shoot by clicking here:

Tom’s SpudGun Video

If you have an audio playing software, you could hear our family anthem by clicking this icon (While it plays in the background, please minimize its browser and open a new one to www.davehagen.net to surf our site while you listen):

Prine & DeSmet sing “In Spite Of Ourselves”

To follow a group of Master Anglers pursuing wily walleyes, please click on this icon:

Fly-In Fishing in NW Ontario

If you are interested in following our challenge to navigate WI and MN rivers from our cabin to our home, please click on this icon:

River Challenge Completed 2001-2004!!!

For the latest project news, click on these icons:

Cabin Construction Corvette Restoration

We took this group photo at the first family Christmas Celebration in 1998:

Later We took this group photo at the annual family Christmas Celebration in 2006:

Then we shot us again 2 years later, in 2008:

We then shot the group again at Thanksgiving in 2011:

When we next photographed the group, at Thanksgiving in 2013, you can see that we also have a couple of guests:

We were able to get the full family together, including Erin (but John missed out), when we all went to Hawaii to celebrate Grandma’s birthday in 2016:

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The gang came together in the last summer at PVC in 2022 to help celebrate Grandpa becoming an Octogenerian. It seems that he is the only one of the group that's becoming older:

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