Re: MtMan-List: Some questions

[mdwatts@naxs.com (Marion D. Watts)]

I'm not sure that this will be of help to anyone concerning brooms, but
being from the deep south and growing up in a rather "plain living" life
style, I was acquainted with several ladies that made their own brooms, as
their mothers before them had.  They were fashioned from sage grass.

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> From: hawknest4@juno.com
> To: hist_text@lists.xmission.com
> Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Some questions
> Date: Thursday, December 17, 1998 12:10 PM
> 
> I believe broom straw that you are speaking of is actually not straw but
> broom corn tops if i am not mistaken---the corn tops are harvisted just
> as the corn is---
> 
> have seen them make brooms there myself and they do a good job---a bit
> pricy when they sell them.  they now buy commercial grown tops and not as
> it was when silver doller city first opened---they got their straw from
> "School of the ozarks"  which is a school that allowd the students to
> work for their tuition and that was a way to produce income for the
> students.
> 
> "HAWK"
> Michael pierce
> 854 Glenfield Dr.
> Palm Harbor Florida  34684
> E-mail:   Hawknest4@Juno.com
> 
> On Wed, 16 Dec 1998 21:20:09 EST TrapRJoe@aol.com writes:
> >Broom straw is grown.  I have seen craftsmen making brooms at Silver 
> >Dollar
> >City in Branson, MO during their craft festivile during the entire 
> >month of
> >Oct.
> >
> >
> 
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