Family Tradition Leads To Sweeping Artistic Career For This Alabama Maker

| August 28, 2017 @ 5:02 am

By Tommy Black

George’s Broom Closet (Florence)

The Maker: George Jones Jr.

Times were tough, and George M. Jones had 50 families depending on him. As the manager of a large tenant farm near Florence, Jones oversaw 1,200 acres of corn, cotton and other crops. Then the Great Depression hit.“The government removed most of the price supports for crops, and the farm came to a standstill,” George Jones Jr. explains. “So my great-grandfather got the idea to grow broom corn and popcorn to help generate income. He taught the other farmers how to make brooms and sold them for around 35 cents each. That may not sound like much today, but if they sold 100 brooms, that was a lot of money back then.”

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