# John Ruskey

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Canoeing the Mississippi: John Ruskey's Life on the River

On this episode of the Mississippi Outdoors Podcast we sit down with John Ruskey, a devoted explorer and steward of the Mississippi River. With years of canoeing experience, John shares his journey from discovering the river's untouched beauty to founding a canoe company that guides adventurers thr…

Boyce Upholt on the Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi River

Send us Fan Mail Very few people today have any memory of a relatively free-flowing Mississippi River. The scale and persistence of river engineering is staggering, and for many of us, the engineered Mississippi is the only Mississippi we have known. That’s one reason journalist Boyce Upholt’s new …

#95 Canoeing and Life on the Lower Mississippi w/ John Ruskey of Quapaw Canoe Company

John Ruskey is the founder of Quapaw Canoe Company in Clarksdale, Mississippi, the creator and author of Rivergator.org - a paddlers guide to the lower Mississippi River, and author of Wildmiles.org. We talk all things paddling, canoeing the Mississippi River, history of the river, the Delta Blues,…

Returning the "Flying Eagle" Canoe

William "Willow Bill" Goulardt invites the public on a voyage down the Mississippi River aboard two dugout canoes, beginning mid-May from Bemidji, Minnesota. As they journey to the state of Mississippi to return the 'Flying Eagle' canoe to her maker, master carver John Ruskey, the crew hopes to eng…

Legal questions abound as Trump deploys National Guard on LA protestors

President Trump ordered the Pentagon to send around 2,000 National Guard troops to Los Angeles in response to protests against immigration raids in the city. Elizabeth Goitein, senior director of the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, explains the legal implica…

Reverse Course: Life after the levee breach in Dogtooth Bend, Illinois

In 2016, the Mississippi River punched a hole in the Len Small levee, built to protect farmland along an S-shaped curve in the river known as Dogtooth Bend. That hole was never repaired. Here & Now's Chris Bentley reports on how some farmers in the area have had to give up their land. And, John Rus…

Learning the Language of the Mississippi River with John Ruskey

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I interview long-time river guide and Sage of the Lower Mississippi, John Ruskey. John has been guiding and living on the Mississippi for nearly 30 years, so I start by letting him describe the Lower Mississippi River that he knows. We talk about some of the river’…

Better Safe Than Sorry? My Radical Choice to Trust the World

Send us Fan Mail Travel has played an outsized role in my life, has shaped it in overwhelmingly positive ways. In this episode, I share the story behind my new memoir, Better Safe Than Sorry? Slow Boats, Chicken Buses, and the Radical Choice to Trust the World. Drawing from 25 years of independent …

The deep and tangled history of the Mississippi River with Boyce Upholt | Episode 4

In this episode of Carrying the Fire, host Hal Herring sits down with New Orleans-based journalist and author Boyce Upholt. Boyce is the author of The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi,  which Amazon calls, “Rich and powerful… a startling account of what happens when we try to…

#32 John Ruskey, Quapaw Canoe Company

Episode 32 Brought to you by Stafford's Market, Drew, Miss Breaking Bread with Stafford Shurden Episode 32: John “Driftwood Johnny” Ruskey | Quapaw Canoe Company On this episode of Breaking Bread, Stafford sits down with John “Driftwood Johnny” Ruskey, founder of Quapaw Canoe Company, musician, pai…