Our speaker for this evening was Virginia WILLIAMS who bills herself as "The Outhouse Lady" and is a leading expert on outhouse architecture. She entertained us with a spicy lecture accompanied by her collection of slides of numerous designs relating to a most necessary addition to our ancestors. She also shared her collection of nicknames and euphemisms garnered over the last 20 years, ranging from the familiar to the obscure.She is one of a few "specialists" on outhouse whose goal is to document these fast eroding structures that are a topic of hilarity and incredulousness among people who are under a "certain age."
The meeting ws well attended, a witness to the popularity of the sopeaker, to the interest of the subject, and to the need for an evening out that offered more than a few good laughs.
The picture above is of Virginia Williams in one of the 200 or so outhouses she has seen and photographed since the early 1980s.
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