Elmer Schlensker (1930-2012) was a fourth generation broom maker from Milltown, Indiana. As a child he helped sew the brooms that his father made. However, Elmer had never made a complete broom,…
This working paper will appear as a chapter in the fourth edition of the Cultural Context of
Aging, Jay Sokolovsky, ed. Stafford provides an overview of the growing age-friendly community
movement…