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 ...

This month's story is a follow-up to what I wrote back in November on the privy, which for many years stood behind the Grosh house situated along Moravian Church Square in Lititz. After careful ...

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 ...

BOSTON (CBS) -- Workers digging at the Paul Revere house in the city's North End believe they may have found an archaeological jackpot that could give them a unique window into history--the Revere ...

It’s hard for us to imagine today that 100 years ago, people had to make a hasty retreat to an outhouse when nature called. Neither would we imagine that 100 years later, some people would be eager to ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — A group of local collectors is working to unearth Western New York history in an unusual place. They call themselves "privy diggers." "Privy is a word that means private. And it ...

BRAINERD - "There's somebody home," Mark Youngblood said as he wiped away the dirt from a glass bottle he'd just unearthed. "That means there's a name on it," said Brian Mann, who stood near the ...

BUFFALO, NY (WKBW-TV) — They are digging around in the back yard of a Buffalo home and looking for pieces of the area's past. They call themselves the Western New York Privy Diggers. Peter Jablonski ...

BOSTON -- Workers digging at the Paul Revere house in Boston's historic North End neighborhood believe they may have found an archaeological jackpot that could give them a unique window into history - ...

HORTON, Kan. (KSNW) – Digging in an outhouse for fun? A Kansas man has made a hobby out of it! “There’s only a couple of us who do this in the state,” said Kenny Resser. Kenny Resser poses with a ...

BRAINERD - "There's somebody home," Mark Youngblood said as he wiped away the dirt from a glass bottle he'd just unearthed. "That means there's a name on it," said Brian Mann, who stood near the ...

HOLTON, Kan. (KSNW) – Would you dig up an outhouse for fun? One Kansas man has made a hobby out of it. “There’s only a couple of us who do this in the state,” said Kenny Resser. Think of it as ...