So most of the brooms we use are made out of a type of sorghum. It's called broom corn. It was a craft that was really commonly grown here, but it pretty much left the U.S. due to a series of ...

From the northwest corner of the county to the eastern end, the Holmes County Garden Tour features five spectacular locations.

And the four brothers — named the grand marshals of this year’s 2008 Arcola Broom Corn Festival parade — each said the community was as much a part of their success as they were for Arcola ...

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 ...

"The material that I'm using is called broom corn," he explained. "It grows identical to corn." There is one tassel per plant, and he said each broom usually requires 35-40 of them, ...

Welcome to Shipshewana Flea Market, the Midwest’s largest outdoor flea market nestled in Indiana’s Amish country. The first time you lay eyes on the Shipshewana Flea Market, you might think you’ve ...

Tucked away in the heart of Illinois farm country sits Arcola, a town where your dollar stretches further than your grandmother’s secret cookie dough recipe.

“Just the smell of the broom corn brings back all of my childhood memories with my grandparents and that’s why it’s so special to me,” said Snyder, who grew up in nearby Utica. “Even though it’s ...

A corn broom is just a broom, and people (at least the ones our hypothetical person lived near) swept their dirt yards to keep grass and weed seeds from starting to grow in very shady yards and ...

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream. But sometimes ice cream is just too much dairy on a hot summer day. Enter ...

QD-OLED is not only used by some of the best TVs from Samsung, but has also been adopted by Sony, adding a brightness boost to TVs like the Sony A95L in 2023 and now the Sony Bravia 8 II in 2025.