Depending on an outhouse seems to belong to a far distant time, but for some Americans, an outhouse is the only way of life they have ever known.
Mattie Whitaker's outhouse sits in back of her white farmhouse, past the woodpile and next to the pen where the little hounds await their next hunting trip. Whitaker's husband, John, still makes use of the facility, but not Mattie, not anymore.
"I'm scared to death of snakes," explained Whitaker, 66, recounting a friend's too-close encounter with one in an outhouse and her own recent decision to use a non-flush indoor toilet she empties each day. "I don't want to run into any snakes - I would have a stroke."