These Front Street privies do not appear to have met the design standards advocated by early twentieth-century health reformers for “sanitary urban privies,” which utilized a pail system. The examples ...

I’m not a fan of the Instagram hashtag #ruraldecay – a steady stream of falling-down barns, abandoned houses and businesses, and junk cars. But I love when my Facebook feed is filled with peonies.

HANNIBAL, Mo. -- Deep in the abyss of the earth, lost remnants remain from a previous society, representing the human joy and strife, wants and needs, pain and healing of a population long faded ...

Starting in the late 1990’s, Ozoga began researching and excavating abandoned privies as way to locate turn-of-the-century artifacts. Using historical maps, records, pictures, satellite images ...

As hobbies go, privy hunting is not pretty. It’s not like, say, remodeling a ’55 Chevy. It takes a different searching soul to dedicate months to digging 8 feet down into century-old ou… ...

Master ceramicist Robert E. Lee III will discuss the treasures and stories he’s amassed while excavating abandoned privies. It will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Gallery, 15 N. Water St ...

Bagley, who lives in Boston, said many historical archeologists love outhouses, or what some call “privies.” “They tend to be dug pretty deep, so that means that a lot can happen in places ...

One man’s trash is another man’s treasure — why collectors are digging up privies 02:54. Minnesota is full of all kinds of collectors. They can grow their collections through flea markets ...

The men have one thing in common: They are professors of the privy. You know, the outhouse: the close stool, the temple of ease, the jakes, the bog-shop, the garde-robe, or, as it was most often ...

Master ceramicist Robert E. Lee III will discuss the treasures and stories he's amassed while excavating abandoned privies. It will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Gallery, 15 N. Water St ...