You can find a lot of things at the bottom an old outhouse, including local history. You can find a lot of things at the bottom an old outhouse, including local history. Adventures in Privy Digging ...

Apr. 2—LEWISBURG — The Union County Historical Society will be hosting a series of events involving privy digging throughout April. Master ceramicist Robert E. Lee III will discuss the treasures and ...

To be a privy digger in Philadelphia is to be part excavator, part flea market authority, and part pirate. First, you must be ...

Apr. 23—LEWISBURG — The Union County Historical Society will hold its final privy dig event Saturday and Sunday. Master ceramicist Robert E. Lee III will conduct the dig at the society's headquarters ...

LEWISBURG — Master ceramicist Robert Lee will be performing another privy dig at the Union County Historical Society Gallery, 15 N. Water St., Lewisburg, today through Sunday. The public is invited to ...

Grove (Rich) Bradbury inspects an antique bottle worth $1,500 in the basement of Randy Travers’ home in Maplewood, Minn. The two are among a group of Twin Cities collectors who go to great lengths and ...

Apr. 26—LEWISBURG — You never know what's sitting just below the surface, waiting to be rediscovered. The Union County Historical Society is about to find out what's underneath the brick and dirt in ...

LEWISBURG — The Union County Historical Society will host a privy dig at the gallery at 15 N. Water St. in Lewisburg in September. Robert Lee, a veteran of more than 400 archaeological “privy digs,” ...

Call them privies, outhouses or pits. Whatever the name, David Hast's mission is the same: to dig, discover and amaze. Mr. Hast is an artist who works as a lab technician at Sandstrom Products in Port ...

To begin a dig, he uses a probing rod similar to the type that utility companies use. He says the soil changes in a privy site -- it's softer, and sometimes the probing rod will touch an artifact ...