Long before modern-day yard sales, garage sales and moving sales, people disposed of their unwanted household items by dropping them down the hole of their outhouse. Broken pottery, used ink bottles, ...

Rowland Bisher has a nose for local history and will go to great depths to flush out pieces of Easton’s past. For more than a decade, the South Easton painting contractor has descended into ...

Apr. 6—This story was originally published in March 2021. There was a time when all it took to construct an outdoor privy in Maine was a shovel, some wood and a bit of sweat. Not anymore. Modern ...

HICKORY CORNERS — Scott Hendrichsen kept sticking a steel rod in the ground until he found what he was looking for. It was 150-year-old poop. Hendrichsen's hobby is collecting antique glass bottles — ...

A shack and outhouse on the Mississippi River’s edge, taken in 1917. Image from Carol Aronovici, seen in "Housing Conditions in the City of Saint Paul." INTERVIEWER: So, if you've ever used an old ...