When my mom moved into her current house, she showed me what she thought to be one of the coolest, most unique features of her new home: a laundry chute in the upstairs bathroom. She’d bought the ...

In June 1998, while renovating his home in St. Louis, Joseph Heathcott found a collection of trash moldering in the slender cavity between his pantry and his laundry chute. It was a stack of small ...