LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — When you see a simple broom, you might connect it with cleaning, chores, or even witches and wizards playing their magical sport. At Bluegrass Brooms, Shannon Lewis puts his ...

VICTOR - Sam and Karen Morrison aren't surprised the old-fashioned brooms they've made by hand for 26 years are still popular. The brooms seem to fly out of the Morrisons' store, the Victor Trading Co ...

The hand-woven Shaker brooms made by artisan Chuck Fath have a following among those seeking him out at the Village Peddler Festival, which takes place Saturday and Sunday at Lake Metroparks Farmpark ...

LONG GROVE, Iowa — Bits of straw blew as Daniel Jepsen of Great River Brooms lowered a steel blade and trimmed the uneven ends of a kitchen broom in the making. Jepsen, a farmer in Miles, Iowa, and ...

Short, stubby brooms hang in neat rows from rafters. Dozens of long- handled brooms are stacked on the floor. Brooms with strange, gnarled handles lean against the walls. And spilling over the shelves ...

KIRBY, W.Va. (AP) - In 2017, West Virginia Public Broadcasting featured one of West Virginia’s last remaining broom makers; Kanawha County resident Jim Shaffer. The story ended with a question: would ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Jim Shaffer has rough hands blackened by nearly seven decades of broom making, but they’re as deft as the day he started. Shaffer, 85, has cobbled together hundreds of ...

Every time she would lead a tour group through a historic log cabin in New Harmony, Indiana, where she worked, she had a sort of empty feeling pointing to the unused machines. Even 30 years later, she ...

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PINE RIVER — Balsam Moon Preserve is offering Broom Making 101 using traditional materials of broomcorn, twine, and wood 1-5 p.m. Feb. 8 at Balsam Moon Preserve, located 10 miles west and south of ...