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 ...
When Sam Moyer, Ph.D., 90, retired as a geneticist/biologist in 1997, he began focusing on a new hobby that centered on him putting out an annual newsletter and flourished into a business — all ...
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, and ...
KIRBY, W.Va. (AP) - In 2017, West Virginia Public Broadcasting featured one of West Virginia’s last remaining broom makers; Kanawha County resident Jim Shaffer. The story ended with a question: would ...
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 ...
Godfrey George writes about the experience of broom makers in Ikosi, a small settlement in Lagos, Nigeria and how increased government support, soft loans and an enabling business environment can help ...
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