NS Outhouse Museum is the number one destination for all things number two
LIVERPOOL, N.S. — The Outhouse Museum began as a request over an afternoon spot of tea.
In the 1970s, Isabel Macneill invited Sherman Hines to her old house in a village on Nova Scotia’s South Shore to commission the prolific photographer for a special project.
Macneill asked Hines to document a disappearing, once essential part of Maritime landscape — outhouses. In decades to come, the elderly woman insisted no one would know what an outhouse looked like, so Hines should photograph them before they were gone.
And so a joke was born. Over the next handful of years, Hines would send his friend a postcard with a photo of an outhouse every Christmas.