Take the school backpack, for example. Its invention can be traced to one man, Murray McCory, who died last month. McCory ...

By Clay Risen Murray McCory, who founded the outdoor equipment company JanSport while still in college and whose signature innovation, a lightweight backpack, revolutionized school life for ...

The recent passing of a man from Seattle is shining new light on a forgotten chapter of modern Pacific Northwest mythology about a ubiquitous school ... one of JanSport’s hiking backpacks ...