Just when I thought I had dabbled in about every legal outdoor activity, my better half asked if I’d ever heard of Richard Carr, owner of Buried Treasure Antiques in downtown Fort Gibson. My wife went ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...