Take a trip back in time…but not so far back in time that you can’t still use your iPad. Ah, the Trapper Keeper. Truly one of the most iconic school supplies ever created, and with a fascinating story ...

Each week Joshua Fruhlinger contributes This is the Modem World, a column dedicated to exploring the culture of consumer technology. It's back to school season, and if you're one of the younger ...

Where would the kids of the ’80s be without the Trapper Keeper? Though the marvelous invention first arrived in the late 1970s, Mead’s Trapper Keeper is deeply associated with the ’80s and ’90s, ...

Like scrunchies and crushed velvet, trapper keepers aren’t just a fad of the ’90s anymore. Trapper keepers are making a comeback, and there’s a good reason why: they’re one of the most well-researched ...

Seven Days is 30, and we need your help to celebrate. With your support, we’ll stay on track, delivering rigorous reporting on Vermont news and culture. For those who attended grade school between the ...

Trapper Keeper. Those two words conjure up as many memories as they do sounds. Like the sound of the velcro echoing through a classroom when 30 kids open their Trapper Keepers simultaneously at the ...

If you were a kid in the 80s or 90s, you know you remember the Trapper Keeper. That magical binder device that would keep all of your school supplies organized? Well, now the Trapper Keeper is back, ...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a child of the ‘90s in possession of a Trapper Keeper must be in want of all the things every ‘90s kid had in their Trapper Keeper. The beauty of it, though ...

E. Bryant Crutchfield, the inventor of the Trapper Keeper, has died. The Trapper Keeper, as you might recall, was the hot school supply to have in the 1980s. I mean, I had to have one. (SOUNDBITE OF ...