I call it broomstraw. Others broomsedge. Whatever you call it, it doesn’t kill my memories of my grandmother’s homemade brooms. About a yardstick long, they stood in corners throughout the ...

His hands are stained an indelible green from 58 years of making brooms. “I make ’em the old-timey way,” 80-year-old Samuel Fine said. “I make ’em by hand.” The … ...

Old-fashioned brooms and walking sticks hang to dry all around the small building. ... Zukowski said that sorghum is better broom material than straw and can last for generations.

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 ...

My memories of her sweeping those porches are so comforting that I cherished her last old-fashioned, straw broom. It was the kind that lasted forever and often left a straw or two behind.

The sorghum broom originated in 1797 when a woman asked her farmer husband to make her a new broom when her straw broom fell apart, Cox said. The farmer found his sorghum made a higher-quality ...

Broom handles can be anything from driftwood to oak sticks used to dry tobacco leaves in Kentucky barns that can be more than 100 years old. No two Wicked Brooms are alike.

But Folk — who won two Brier and world championships, one with a corn broom and one with a brush — still likes those old things. His team was one of three at the 1980 Brier that still used ...