A Flexible Flyer sled from 1936 from the permanent collection of The Childrens Museum of Indianapolis. In the late 19th century Samuel Leeds Allen took the age-old concept of the sled and improved ...

Flexible Flyer went downhill – in the business sense – for a time, but today the legendary sled brand is thriving in the hands of a family that spent generations competing against it. Only A ...

Hank Burchard, a Washington Post journalist who was a roving reporter in Virginia and scoured backwoods, museums and dusty attics for lyrical and often humorous pieces on the outdoors and modern art ...

I probably wouldn’t have given the thought of owning a Flexible Flyer sled much importance had it not been for the fact that most of my friends (well, three of them) possessed Flexible Flyers.

The current owner of the Flexible Flyer brand is Paricon, a Maine-based company, which has been in the snow sport product business for 150 years. The majority of the sleds are made in China, however.

If you’re a baby boomer or older, the sled of your childhood is dead. The manufacturer of the American Flexible Flyer wooden sled has ceased production, and that has upset local merchants who… ...

A massive four-alarm fire burned out of control at the former headquarters of the S.L. Allen & Co. in the Kensington section of Philadelphia Monday night.

Contrary to what you might read online, the Flexible Flyer still lives, its manufacturing today under the direction of Paricon LLC in South Paris, Maine.

Scott Saxman, director of marketing for Blazon-Flexible Flyer Inc., said the sled design has remained essentially the same for 100 years.

In the late 19th century Samuel Leeds Allen took the age-old concept of the sled and improved on it, much to the delight of generations of children.     Allen was born in Philadelphia ...

Flexible Flyer went downhill – in the business sense – for a time, but today the legendary sled brand is thriving in the hands of a family that spent generations competing against it. Only A ...