Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Forty years ago, in 1983, John Ruskey embarked on a raft trip from home state of Colorado, traversing rivers in an attempt to get ...

It's a chilly February day as we set out from the Arkansas side of the Mississippi River. We're in a 24-foot cypress canoe, paddling south, with John Ruskey guiding in the stern. The first stretch of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Our guides directed our canoe into the muddy waters of the Mississippi River, steering clear of the massive ships carrying ...

“THE RIVER PROVIDETH all things,” drawls John Ruskey in the mock-reverential tones of a redneck messiah. “And now, it will provideth … fawwrwood!” Ruskey is our ever-competent guide and spiritual ...

It’s a Sunday afternoon at the San Francisco Coffee Festival at Fort Mason, and Jay Ruskey, founder of Frinj Coffee, is standing at his booth in front of a row of lush green plants wrapped in burlap.

Few people see the Mississippi River the way John Ruskey does. Ruskey runs Quapaw Canoe Company in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He and his team of guides lead tours of the river in wooden dugout canoes, ...

John and Kristen Ruskey were found dead at a residence in Cambria, California, on Sunday, Feb. 8 John and Kristen Ruskey were found dead at a residence in Cambria, California, on Sunday, Feb. 8 ...

When customers stop by Jay Ruskey’s stand at the Santa Barbara farmers market these days, they may or may not be impressed by the likes of the dragon fruit or finger limes he grows, but virtually ...