Now, I’ll admit when I first saw the porch broom at Salter House—an elegantly mawkish shop of quilts, nighties, and the like in Brooklyn Heights—I thought it was kind of funny. How is this broom ...
Everybody needs a good broom in their cleaning-tool repertoire, but a good broom with bristles that last a long time isn’t always easy to find. Whether you need to sweep up dirt, dust and animal hair ...
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 ...