VolksWorld

STRAIGHT OUTTA LAPLAND

This edition of VolksWorld is the last in 2020, and appears in the middle of the so-called dark season so I thought I would share a festive story from my own archives.

It begins in the spring of 2007, when I sold a set of Fuchs to an English guy named Darren Larwood. There was no social media then, and friendships were based on personal interaction. Darren had been working

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