Warning: interest in geodesics, tiny living, domes, shanty boats, synergy, sustainability and like have been found to become addictive in Buffalo, NY. Among the crafts floating in the Buffalo River ...

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 ...

People who live in houseboats by Teddington Lock have spoken out about attempts to evict them, claiming shanty boats were ruining their otherwise idyllic way of life. Most of the people living in ...

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 ...

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.

House-boats were still moored along the shores of the Ohio and Little Kanawha Rivers during the 1937 flood. The house-boat shown is near a pier of the Ohio River Railroad bridge. Another house-boat ...