ROCHESTER — No, there's not some impending flood about to hit the city, but that didn't stop one local man from building an ark-like boat this summer. Paul Reynolds, 77, has spent the past few months ...

During the Great Depression, as many as 50,000 people lived on about 30,000 crudely-built "shanty boats" along the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, including in Louisville. Louisville's floating ...

Jane Young looks through storage cabinets that might have been used to store items like dishes. (Photo by Madeline Scarborough) MARIETTA — According to the Ohio River Museum, eight thousand families ...

Red Bluff >> A journey of more than 200 river miles began last Saturday as Wes Modes and the crew of a 1940s replica shanty boat prepared to launch into the Sacramento River from the shores of Red ...

Wes Modes emailed in the spring about his plan to spend the summer in a shanty boat on the rivers of south Louisiana. My first question was obvious: Why plan this trip for the summer? Workers on the ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. >> The Hudson River is the fourth leg of a journey by Wes Modes and his shanty boat crew mates, who have spent the past four years gathering stories of how the nation’s major rivers ...

'Hey man, you're living my dream...!' The cry rings out once, twice a day from people who catch sight of the shanty boat as it wends its way down the back waters of the USA. Hand built out of ...

Unlike the hardscrabble neighborhood of Dogtown that received significant coverage in The Telegraph, our city’s shantyboat community of long ago drew only a brief mention now and then. Like Dogtown, ...

On Thursday night, in an air-conditioned, upstairs bar overlooking a marina and campground on the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal near Lake Pontchartrain, I learned the answer: He's a teacher and has ...