New Year’s Day: The Importance of Days
Is there an importance to having New Year’s Day as a significant day in our legacy? It would take hours to sift through Beechroots to find our ancestors that were born exactly on January...
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New Year’s Day: The Importance of Days
Is there an importance to having New Year’s Day as a significant day in our legacy? It would take hours to sift through Beechroots to find our ancestors that were born exactly on January...
The Heart of the Family
Every family has a heart, and while it isn’t a literal organ—like the one the beats inside us—this heart is an essential, living part of all families. I have been thinking about our family...
Imperfectly Perfect Gifts
One of the many joys of Christmas is the delight that comes from giving and receiving gifts. What child hasn’t wished for some item, written a letter to Santa, or dropped hints to their...
Thanksgiving Then and Now
I helped one of my first graders cut out a feather and staple it to a headband after he had colored the elongated piece with different colors. The girls got into the festivities and...
Willoughby G. Hagenbuch: A Rich Life in Spite of Adversity
About a month ago, I saw a piece of Hagenbuch history for sale on eBay. It was a postcard sent on August 4, 1967 by Willie Hagenbuch of Bowmanstown, Pennsylvania to Félix Duval of...
Giving Care to Our Ill Relatives
As you know, I am now on hospice care due to the advancement of prostate cancer. I was still hoping to buy more time; but two weeks ago, after my wife Linda, my oncologist,...
A Boy with a Movie Camera
Moving pictures are a powerful way to capture and preserve history. In 1929, the Ukrainian filmmaker Dziga Vertov released his silent film, Man with a Movie Camera. It was largely dismissed due to its...
The Past, Once, and Future Halloween
My goodness! How things have changed during the holidays over the years! In previous articles for Hagenbuch.org we have explored Christmases, Easters, and patriotic holidays of years gone by. And, we’ve touched on what...
Where Does Our Story Go From Here?
Every family has a story. So in that sense, the Hagenbuch family is like any other. Although, when you look past the surface, you’ll start to discover what makes each family unique. Again, the...
A Decade of Stories
Never in my wildest dreams would I have believed on October 30, 2014, ten years ago, that articles about our family history and related topics would have mushroomed into a huge volume of information....
