Butt Rott And The Outhouse

Michael Kruse: DUNNELLON



A palm tree with butt rot fell over a few weeks back and crushed this community's historic three-hole outhouse.



Stop laughing. This is serious.



Good riddance? Not here.



Dunnellon is a south Marion County town of not quite 2,000 people. On the outskirts, it looks like so much of Florida, Wal-Mart, Sonic, billboards for car insurance, foot doctors and retirement homes. Get closer to the center, though, and that starts to change.



There's a blue-gray, rust-topped, way-cool water tower. There's a TV repair shop. There's a pastel-pink, single-story motel called the Two Rivers Inn.



There's also a house, now home to First Realty of Dunnellon, with…