It has been a great month for sledding in New Jersey following several snowstorms. This is especially true for the few people who are still riding the old wooden Flexible Flyer sleds. Flexible Fliers ...

Sam Allen, of Edgewater Park, shows off his sledding style on a Flexible Flyer, the sled invented by his great-grandfather Samuel Leeds Allen. Advertised as the "Sled That Steers," the Flexible Flyer, ...

The guidebook "Flexible Flyer and Other Great Sleds for Collectors," by Joan Palicia, tells us the most famous sled was the "Flexible Flyer" manufactured by Samuel Leeds Allen, a Pennsylvania Quaker ...

MOORESTOWN – The sleds seem to have a personality of their own. One, the Model No. 6, stands 8 1 / 2 feet tall; one has a Mickey Mouse design; there's a Fire Fly Model No. 10a, built from 1890 to 1900 ...

Does the term “belly-whopping” have any meaning to snow-lovers these days? It sure did for me when I was a kid, growing up in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. In those World War II days, we were poor and so ...

Jersey History: Moorestown library home to Flexible Flyer sled museum It has been a great month for sledding in New Jersey following several snowstorms. This is especially true for the few people who ...