Inside Appalachia

Inside Appalachia's Broommaker Film Will Be Screened at Library of Congress


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Eighty-seven year-old Jim Shaffer has had his hands busy since 1946. He is the last commercial broom-maker left in West Virginia. People from all over the country have come to see, and take home, some of Shaffer’s work. A short film about Jim Shaffer is being screened at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress later this month at an event called "Reel Folk: Cultural Explorations on Film" . The video was produced earlier this year by Inside Appalachia, in collaboration with the
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