VOLCANO – Artifacts uncovered by a team of archaeology students and leaders at the site of Thornhill Mansion, the former estate of oil and gas pioneer W.C. Stiles, may have been washed out, but ...

One of the questions Theresa Gay Rohall has about early residents and guests at the historic Compass Inn in Ligonier Township: “Where did they go to the bathroom?” Outdoor privies from past eras are ...

Among the hundreds of jobs associated with farming and ranching, digging postholes by hand is by far my least favorite. Today, most postholes are dug by equipment powered by tractors, motors and ...

AVOCA – Eleven degrees above zero, light wind out of the west, bright sunshine — a good day to dig a grave. “I got here about 8:30 (a.m.),” Bill Jessen, 64, said between flinging shovels of dirt more ...

A self-confessed ‘eccentric’ has spent 30 years hand-digging an other-worldly labyrinth of underground caves 20ft below the garden of his home. From the outside, Francis Proctor’s home looks perfectly ...

Francis Proctor, 76, spent three decades digging out the 20ft-deep network of tunnels and caverns beneath his home in Southport, Merseyside, with the help of his late wife ...