[Magdalen] A la Reserche du Temps Perdu.

[Lynn Ronkainen]

Susan, I never even thought of any connection before now with your last 
name, but my paternal grandmother's maiden name was also Hagen and although 
she was in Minnesota when she met and married my grandfather, her family of 
origin was in SD and I believe that she was 2 or 3rd generation Norwegian. 
She was also a Lutheran. I have a picture of her in her confirmation class - 
boys and girls (teenagers) and the girls all in white with 'Elizabethan' 
ruffs around their necks!

Lynn


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From: "Susan Hagen" <susanvhagen at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2014 8:21 PM
To: "magdalen" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] A la Reserche du Temps Perdu.

> And my father was born in northern Wisconsin to German immigrants in a
> largely German speaking farming community.  My grand- and
> great-grandparents never spoke much English.  As the children went to
> school they learned it.  Since both of my grand-parents died while the
> children were young English became the family language.  My father
> never had a government issued birth certificate.  His baptismal
> certificate was in German.
>
> Susan
>
> On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Joseph Cirou <romanos at mindspring.com> 
> wrote:
>> My father, born in Minnesota, in 1901 spoke only French until he was 
>> about
>> 5. His parents opened a boarding house in Stillwater, Mn, on the site of
>> the present? penitentiary and had to speak English for their boarders. I
>> believe my grandparents were bilingual at the time, but spoke French at
>> home.
>>
>> Joe
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 9:05 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
>> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> In search of lost time
>>>
>>> While eating some cheese (aged cheddar from the monks at Gethsemane
>>> Trappist Abbey, Kentucky) yesterday, I had one of those flashbacks to
>>> childhood memories.  I specifically remember my mother (b. 1902)
>>> recounting
>>> that she was appointed the task of walking daily some twenty blocks
>>> through
>>> Superior, Wisconsin to the location of the pasture for her family cow
>>> where
>>> she picked up the fresh milk/cream and carried it back to the family 
>>> home.
>>>
>>> The cow was tended and fed by a farmer, and she initially had trouble
>>> communicating with him because she spoke only Norwegian.  The  family
>>> used the milk for a variety of purposes which included making their  own
>>> butter and a type of cheese.
>>>
>>> It sounds odd in this day and age to have a child as young as 5 years
>>> walking alone all this way, but it was a different era.
>>>
>>> Mother learned her English initially when she entered school.  This
>>> language
>>> situation is common around here with nearly half the population 
>>> Hispanic.
>>> Norwegian immigrants have long since moved into the mainstream, and
>>> few would bother leaving Norway now with the highest average income
>>> of any country in the world.
>>>
>>>
>>> David Strang.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>
>
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