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 ...

A man in Ontario is taking one last whack at making and selling corn brooms for curling. It’s a small thing, and a tiny trade. The pulse of a once-booming industry can now be measured by the 20 brooms ...

Back more than 100 years ago, when broom-making was big business, Victoria got in on the action. A group of “over 100 hard-working, law-abiding Vikings” were among those in South Texas who grew the bi ...

LARAMIE - The days were long, the work repetitive and the conditions rough. But for prisoners, the opportunity to work in the Wyoming Territorial Prison's broom factory was probably better than ...