Crafting brooms has become a family affair with Thiessen’s oldest son, Ivan, and daughter-in-law Sherill from Spencer, Iowa, coming to work in the shop during the show. Son- in-law Loren Hicks has ...

The Wyoming Territorial Prison State Historic Site is trying to keep a bygone craft from being swept under the rug. In 1890, Territorial Prison inmates built a broom factory within the prison’s walls.

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 ...

I swept my porch yesterday with a natural corn broom. It’s a marvel and has barely changed since the first brooms were made. My modern broom still is a bundle of flexible “stems” held together around ...

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 ...