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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Sometimes a sea shanty isn't just a sea shanty. With "The Ship," the heralded ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ana Egge reaches back into the folk tradition and cleverly revives the sea shanty as the musical basis for her new single “The Ship,” premiering today. “The Ship” speaks quietly but defiantly of a ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

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 ...