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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. FLORENCE, Ala. – Mark Twain has captured the ...

Falmouth Classics returns this summer alongside the sea shanty festival (Image: PCC) One of the UK’s leading classic sailing ...

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 ...

While sightseeing at the Outer Harbor recently, we ran across this great little shop situated along the bike path near Dug’s Dive. It was the most unexpected ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – JANUARY 25: Peter Kasin poses for a photograph on the three-masted cargo ship the Balclutha, built in 1886, at Hyde Street Pier in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, Jan. 25 ...

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 ...