HAMBURG — The story, as Elly Zastrow was told through family lore, was that the sleigh was given to his grandfather to repay an investment that went bust. The sleigh, estimated to be about 148 ...

Greg Allison's grandfather, Charles, was an esteemed clock maker, but tracking down his timepieces was not an easy task. "He grew up in Holley, a middle child in a farming family, and in 1908 ...

Grandfather backs Buddy into an all-purpose sleigh and attaches the whippletree. He fetches the massive buffalo hide from the barn to keep my brother and me warm, and we hop onto the sleigh.

There was one person for whom a ride in the sleigh was particularly special. Delbert Francis has a keen interest in his family's history as craftsmen. His father, grandfather and great ...