Family, Projects & Travel

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 his trophy walleye caught in NW Ontario in June ’02.

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:

• Our Family Tree
• Our Individual Biographies
• Our Individual Current Hobby Projects and Travels

If you have a video playing software (Windows Media Player,etc) you could join us on a ride in our Model A here:

Tom Elmquist’s Model A Video

If you have an audio playing software, you could hear our family anthem here (click “Back” after listening to return here):

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

For the latest family celebrations, click on these icons:

• Taylor Zencius ‘07 Austin Hagen ‘06

For the latest project news, click on these icons:

• Cabin Construction Corvette Restoration

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

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

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!!!

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The contents of this page have not been reviewed or approved by the University of Minnesota.