Teresa Minard%27s interest in outhouses led to lectures on everyday rural history Those under 50 in rural America are generally unfamiliar with outhouse culture Modern plastic porta-potties are ...

If you drive through Old Town on Halloween weekend, imagine a time when the only paved streets in Scottsdale were short stretches of Main Street and Brown, Indian School and Scottsdale roads. Then ...

Robert E. Lee, whose hobby is excavating old outhouse holes found this single-shot pistol in a Jersey Shore dig of a hole that dated to the mid-1800s. Photo by John Beauge, Special to PennLive ...

An Afton art studio recently was home to a unique type of treasure hunt. The Old School Art Studio played host last month to an “outhouse dig” by Hastings resident Jim Lewanski, who makes a hobby out ...

AFTON, Minn. - An Afton art studio was recently home to a unique type of treasure hunt. The Old School Art Studio played host last month to an "outhouse dig" by Hastings resident Jim Lewanski, who ...

And you think your backyard stinks. An urban archeologist has refurbished the 19th-century outhouse that came with his Hoyt Street house, and now he’s hoping to transform the primitive bathroom into a ...

“Privy Thoughts: the History of the Outhouse” is the topic of the next meeting of the Sinking Spring Area Historical Society. The free meeting is March 14 at 7:30 p.m. at Sinking Spring Borough Hall, ...