The Outhouse before it was restored
Photo from K. Conrad
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The restored outhouse
Photo from K. Conrad
Used by permission |
This outhouse was restored by the owners. Take a good look at the roof. As far as the roof goes, it is slate and the owner had not seen a slate roof before on an outhouse. They look forward to the paint cracking on the new slate just as it is on the old ones. They really didn't want to paint it however you can see how bad it was. The man they got it from is an Indian from the midwest who collects Outhouses,
corn cribs, etc. He suggested they paint it or it would not last. Recently, the owner was in Adamstown PA and she walked past a booth and over heard a man asking a woman why a shovel had such a long handle? She told him it was for a privy.... The owner went to talk to her husband and a couple they had to meet and she forgot to go back and get it. She wanted to hang it on the side of the outhouse. She went back a week or so later and the vendor was not there but the owner was. She is still so upset she didn't get it when she saw it originally.
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