CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Jim Shaffer has rough hands blackened by nearly seven decades of broom making, but they’re as deft as the day he started. Shaffer, 85, has cobbled together hundreds of ...

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 ...

Most of us own a broom. Some prefer the newer-style broom made from plastic, and some of us like a traditional broom made from broomcorn. Both types of brooms do a good job of sweeping, but there is ...

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 ...