This year’s event took place on a sunny, wind-free day on a flat snow-packed, out-and-back course measuring just 100 feet each way. Jennifer Nalewicki The defending champs, all members of the AE Club, ...

And you think your backyard stinks. An urban archeologist has refurbished the 19th-century outhouse that came with his Hoyt Street house, and now he’s hoping to transform the primitive bathroom into a ...

CORRALES, N.M. – At a time when life could be harsh in the American Southwest, outhouses served more than one important role. They provided structure, protected water resources and created important ...

SELDOVIA -- The bow of the packraft wiggled gently back and forth as we paddled back home across the bay. Behind it, a yellow packraft trailer wiggled as well, weighed down with a backpack full of ...

Outhouses can be about more than just … you know. “I thought it would be fun to build an outhouse that was almost a piece of sculpture,” said John Sylvestre, a remodeler who is renovating his lake ...

Nobody’s sure which was first, the rock or the tree, but the first serious improvement in the place humans went to heed nature’s call was the privy. Which is also known as the brivy (Pennsylvania ...