Re: MtMan-List: Some questions

[bspen@aye.net (Bob Spencer)]

Marion D. Watts wrote:

>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.

That "sage grass" you mention is actually sedge, and the common orange-tan
type you see growing all over the southeast is called 'broom sedge'. I
presume that's because it was commonly used to make homemade brooms, as you
describe.

Bob

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