Sleigh Bells in Delaware’s Winter Past
Above: This drawing from a 1915 ‘Middletown Transcript’ newspaper article reminds us that sleighs were once garaged the same way we garage our modern cars. Delawareans had been using sleigh bells for well over a century by the time the Victorians introduced us to “Jingle Bells” (1857) and Currier & Ives prints of rosy-cheeked couples…