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 ...

Northern Ireland's only all-male sea shanty group, The Causeway Shantymen, will host a special Shanty Weekend this summer, ...

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 ...