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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The shanty boat that recently moved from its temporary home in a slough across from Riverfront Park in Salem is now moored at Keizer Rapids Park. Last week, the shanty was spotted on the Willamette ...

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 ...

HAVERSTRAW - Wes Modes stood on the bow of his shanty as it bobbed gently at Admirals Cove Marina on Friday morning, a cup of coffee in a mason jar and his four-legged companion, Hazel, at his side.

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 ...