Jay and Beth Stottman wrote:
>
> I really can't resist any longer, I always like to talk about privies.
> However, I think the silence is due to the fact that most people are
> probably in the field.  That's where I have been and I am too hot and tired
> to reply much, even on a topic that I like to talk about.

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> With plenty of space to dispose of trash in the rural areas, would a privy serve a similar function.  At least in Kentucky, the prevailing theory of rural trash disposal is in the nearest sinkhole, except for some major appliances and
> cars which end-up in the front yard.
>
> M. Jay Stottman
> Kentucky Archaeological Survey
>
...now Jay...I'm going to chalk it up to the fact that you are hot and
tired, but you REALLY should watch those bad southern stereotypes!?!

VivianLea Stevens
Material Culture Historian and
  Museum Curator