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, ...

BAY COUNTY, Mich. (WJRT) - The U.S. Coast Guard called off an hours-long search for the owners of a shanty floating on an ice floe on Saginaw Bay. The Coast Guard says the shanty was spotted Wednesday ...

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 ...