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 ...

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 ...

You never know what you’re going to find in the privy. That’s what Melissa and Matt Dunphy discovered in 2016 after they bought the former Grasso’s Magic Theatre in Old City with plans to transform it ...

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,” ...

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In the 18th century, Philadelphia did not have garbage collection. Everyone threw their trash down the outhouse shaft in back of the house. Those privies are now goldmines of the archaeology world.

Old towns like Litchfield attract collectors and purveyors of history, but the treasure one club seeks is found in an unlikely place. “We’re looking for the old toilets where people go poo,” said Mark ...

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 ...