Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/02/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]When my charming bride and I visited my son in Alaska last Fourth of July (that's a religious festival in the US of A, Ted), she picked up a photo book entitled OUTHOUSES OF ALASKA, a most worthy volume. But, then, in Alaska, all you have to do is take a camera out for an afternoon and you can have a book-worth of outhouse shots PDQ. They still have a lot of them. Outhouses are less common here in the Appalachians, where they have been replaced by septic systems (as seems to be the case in Canada, as witness the success of Winston Rothschild's Septic Sucking Service on the Red Green Show). But, as a youth, I used many of them when my mother hauled me about visiting my relatives with one leg shorter than the other from chasing the cow around the mountain too many times. I go camping every summer at a former CCC project about thirty miles north of here, and they've had flush toilets since the early 1950's. There's not much respect for quaintness alive at our National Forest Service, I fear. Ted, do a book on outhouses. Just stay away from Possum Lake, as Winston has that market locked up. Marc msmall@aya.yale.edu Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! NEW FAX NUMBER: +540-343-8505