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 ...

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 ...

A cold night didn't stop attendance at a recent Port Byron Historical Society program on outhouse digging. It was funny and fascinating. David Hast has been digging in outhouses for 15 years and isn't ...

WILLIAMSPORT -- Bob Salaki stood in a hole behind a house on Grace Street in Williamsport. One hundred years ago, you wouldn't want to go near that hole, but now, Salaki is digging for buried ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BUXTON, N.D. – An old outhouse pit might not be the first place that comes to mind when searching for buried treasure. But for Tom Askjem, yesterday’s toilets are a treasure trove of information that ...

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 ...