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.

The creator of the Trapper Keeper was 85. His wife, Virginia Crutchfield, confirmed his death and said the cause was cancer. Mr. Crutchfield, known as “Crutch,” spent more than three decades ...

His son, Kenneth, said the cause was bone cancer. Few objects evoke Gen X or millennial childhood as powerfully as the Trapper Keeper, essentially a large binder for your folders. Mead ...