Niederlinxweiler, outside St. Wendel, Saarland, DE (updated September 2014) Seven years after my travels I still look back at my visit to NLX fondly, particularly one story which I hope I'm not repeating. This story was told to me by Willie Wolflinger, the longtime neighbor of the Jakob Neu farmhouse, nicknamed the Fox House for reasons unknown. When Willie was young, about 8 years or so, he remembers my great grandfather, Karl, visiting from America. His family referred to him as the American Fox, a reference to his brother Jakob's "Fox House". As a young boy he was very excited to hear about America. We're talking early 1900s. Willie told me "I remember getting to stay up later than usual which was very exciting... to stay up with the adults and listen to them talk. I
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