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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.