Wednesday, 09 December 2015 00:23
Ear, ear: Farmington celebrates inventor of the earmuff
FARMINGTON Earmuffs have come a long way in 142 years.
Chester Greenwood was a 15-year-old bestowed with generous ears when he decided he had had enough of the biting cold while ice skating in 1873. The first earmuffs were then born, fashioned from farm wire with fur sewn on them by his grandmother.
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