LOPEZ, Pa. — Not all brooms are the same! Especially if they are hand crafted, made with the utmost quality and look like a piece of art! Home and Backyard had the opportunity to visit the Meckley ...
KINGSPORT, Tenn. — These years have already been dubbed the Digital Age, where computers, electronics and artificial intelligence are turning so much of what we knew into relics of the past. You can ...
With Halloween is just around the corner, the Boyertown Area Historical Society recently hosted a broom making workshop for those witches in need of a new broom, or for those who wanted a witch’s ...
VERSHIRE, Vt. (WCAX) - On a hazy summer day, Meghan Carroll sets up shop on her front lawn. Donning twine, broomcorn and handmade tools, she’s building a broom in traditional Appalachian fashion. “I ...
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 ...
No one makes brooms by hand anymore. Well, almost no one. More than a century ago Jack Martin’s maternal ancestors, the Hockadays, began growing broomcorn alongside more conventional crops on the ...