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 ...

SELMER – Jack Martin made his first broom as a child in his grandfather’s old broom shop in Selmer. “He made me put it together and take it apart probably 11 times,” Martin said. “But I never knew how ...

Broom Maker Ron DuMoulin shows how he binds the broom corn by hand stitching it. (Photo by Kristi R. Garabrandt) WELLSVILLE — Ron DuMoulin, also known as The Village Broom Maker, discovered his ...

Most of us own a broom. Some prefer the newer-style broom made from plastic, and some of us like a traditional broom made from broomcorn. Both types of brooms do a good job of sweeping, but there is ...

Broomcorn harvesting used to be a major part of the U.S. agriculture industry before being swept away in the 1990s, but one Kentucky craftsperson is looking to bring it back. Artisan broom-maker ...

SOUTHAMPTON – On most days, you can find Sam Moyer working away alone in a small room of an old concrete building once used to churn out cider on a former apple orchard. Moyer, 82, has been in the ...

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 ...

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 ...