W e shan't name names, but people of a certain age will remember when their neighbors swept their dirt yards daily with a corn broom. All that sounds a little weirder than it actually is. A corn ...

Broom Maker Ron DuMoulin shows how he binds the broom corn by hand stitching it. (Photo by Kristi R. Garabrandt) Using a kick winder which he made himself, broom maker Ron DuMoulin begins to craft a ...

The FURemover ($13.99) is a novel push broom with rubber bristles that are designed to nab up pet hair. The O-Cedar Power Corner ($24.15) is a standard angle broom, but I like it for two reasons ...

The corn broom has actually been gone for a few years, but now can be said to be officially dead. ... "The good old days of slamming and slapping the brooms have gone.

ARCOLA — People who attend this year’s Arcola Broom Corn Festival in September will get a good idea how the town’s new Broom Palace will look. At least the exterior.

Between 2020 and 2021, according to data platform the Observatory of Economic Complexity, corn broom sales jumped by more than $10 million. The brooms from Berea’s shop start at $65.

Corn does have a significant amount of carbohydrates, which can be a problem for people with diabetes. It has a glycemic index of 55, which is still considered low.

Monahan looks to Mitchell, S.D., for a good example of how a broom palace could give Arcola tourism another shot in the arm. The World’s Only Corn Palace in Mitchell gets a half-million visitors ...

Rick Folk's team won the Brier and world curling title in 1980 using corn brooms. ... “I’ve only smacked them in my shop, make sure they’ve got a good whack to them,” he says.