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"Hilary L. Hopper" <[log in to unmask]>
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BULLAMANKA-PINHEADS The historic preservation free range.
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Sun, 21 Dec 1997 08:55:45 -0500
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I think I am missing some inbetween letters here...but you want OUTHOUSE
photos?!
!! I live in KY-- you want what!
Would you like photos of installation of a beautiful outhouse complete with
bat carving above the door?
ANd others? Really?
I mean sure.
Hilary Lambert Hopper
Lexington KY

At 09:34 PM 12/19/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Unfortunately, photo-ops for stand-alone outhouses around here are few and
>far between. The structures have mostly been consumed in the July 4th
>ritual of outhouse burning. Somehow, I've never had the heart or the guts
>to read the riot act to a throng of well greased red-necks about the need
>to preserve this fast-fading artifact of our historical past. I'll even
>admit to throwing a few burning twigs on myself, in my younger days, of
>course. Who would have imagined how many outhouses could go up in flames in
>just a few short years. We always imagined that the supply was
>inexhaustible. Wrong, wrong, wrong! And a lesson in preservation to be
>learned, but too late.
>
> I could get you interior shots of a number of inside two-holers.
>
>I think that the web-site project should definitely, and defiantly, move
>forward. If there are 4,000,000 startrek sites, there should at least be
>one BP site. There ain't nothing studied about our other-worldliness.
>
>Bruce
>
>

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