KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — On Friday, people will have a chance to learn about a significant part of the Appalachian culture — traditional broom-making. The Marble Springs State Historic Site will host an ...
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 ...
How do you make a broom? You begin with broom corn, which is a type of sorghum, available in Oklahoma and the panhandle of Texas. The seeds need to be removed, the straw sorted into comparable lengths ...
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Eddy Jack Martin took up broom making in the mid-1980s. His brooms have been used by the governor and first lady and on the Broadway stage. It takes him about 45 minutes to make each broom, and he ...
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 ...
VICTOR — Sam and Karen Morrison learned to make brooms by pulling them apart. The Colorado couple’s unlikely craft started after watching a demonstration in rural Iowa, more than three decades ago, ...
FORT DAVIS - Ron Cox can be seen most any day of the week working outside his shop on State Street. Cox carves spiral markings into slender pecan tree branches, then takes the pieces inside to work ...
A new challenge is sweeping the internet, quite literally. Social media was inundated on Monday with posts about the #BroomChallenge that contained an alleged post for NASA claiming that February 10, ...
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