Trapper Haskins
@TrapperHaskins
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Musician | Writer | Woodworker | Type 1 Diabetic | Mental Health advocate | Author of the memoir/travelogue, CROOKED OLD RIVER
Thompson’s Station, Tennessee
Joined December 2009
Rising sophomore at @wcsIHSbaseball
Wyatt Haskins | OF | 2028 @MidlandTN | #Uncommitted Loud contact from the ‘28 to drive the ball to CF for a 3B. #ProspectsTour2028
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I was recently a guest on the Nano Cruising podcast, a show about small boat voyages. We discuss my rowboat adventure on the Mississippi River (including some very personal mental health challenges) and the resulting book, Crooked Old River. https://t.co/rFmuqeVOut
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In this week’s episode of the NanoCruising podcast, we talk with writer, musician, and small-boat voyager Trapper Haskins , whose journey do...
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#LyricOfTheDay “In your rayon dress, Learning all your curves, Turning all the boys, Into hummingbirds.” —Joel Plaskett, It’s Almost Over Now
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An article on my diabetes misdiagnosis by my new diabuddy, @GingerVieira
https://t.co/ltxOGAMKim
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Trapper Haskins, musician, author and woodworker, was misdiagnosed with type 2 diabetes at 36 years old in 2013. He endured seven years of frustration with extreme exercise and severely restrictive...
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My book, Crooked Old River, is now available at the library in McMurdo Station, Antarctica! Of course, if you’d rather not travel to the bottom of the world to check it out, you can always order a signed copy from my website here: https://t.co/iuSQuTY8rB
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Happy Halloween! Here’s October’s issue of Sound, Script, & Sawdust: https://t.co/jlaIFLXbCW
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Someone close to me recently called to say they had seen a well known songwriter play a few of his tunes in a casual, backyard setting. And this person was not impressed.
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Good morning from the banks of this crooked old river. To quote the late great Justin Townes Earle, “Muddy water turned to gold . . . I love mornings in Memphis.” Link to get the book is in my bio. 📖
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This month’s Six Bullets: • A collection of bodysuit tattoos preserved post-mortem • A new true-crime doc. on a prolific bank robber nicknamed “Hollywood�� • A strange event known as the Kentucky Meat Shower of 1876 • and more . . . https://t.co/ns3ttJNMX4
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Do you have any tattoos? If so, do you want them buried with you, or would you consent to having them displayed in a museum once you're gone? Bear in mind there is only one way to separate your...
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“I turned down a publishing deal.” https://t.co/rfBVjpNVWY
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I turned down a publishing deal. . .
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Summary: When Trapper Haskins and his wife were young newlyweds, they built a wooden rowboat with the intention of traveling down the Mississippi River, from northern Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico. The trip was supposed to take ninety days. It took sixteen years.
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My 16 y.o. daughter used my workbench to make candles today. Not only does my woodshop now smell like potpourri, I discovered she used my dovetail saw to cut the block of wax. That girl is lucky I love her! 😆
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I don’t study economics, but after cancelling a few subscriptions yesterday I had to wonder: what percentage of the U.S. economy is dependent on this model? Television and music streaming, smartphone apps, online counseling, even mail-order coffee—all of it rented by the month.
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Hope to see many of y'all on Thursday night! Starting going through my notes today. I'm gonna talk about, among other things, country music, the Everglades, the Wall Street Journal, and Huck Finn. Come find out how I thread that needle...
Baton Rouge, join us next Thursday for free drinks, snacks and a talk by the great writer @BoyceUpholt. It's going down at The Guru on Government Street. Boyce will be signing copies of his must-read new book, "The Great River." Register online: https://t.co/D6QqnpdFp4
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This month’s offering of Rarities, Oddities, and Recommendations: • Movie scenes that mimic famous paintings • A city that shouldn’t exist but does • Hunting night crawlers • and more . . . https://t.co/WJS3RZvtjK
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A hundred miles outside of Los Angeles sits California City. By land area it is the 3rd largest city in the state. By population it does not even crack the top 400. Miles and miles of roads have been...
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Latest issue of my newsletter, Sound, Script, & Sawdust | No. 82 https://t.co/1n9I37t5vW
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During the Paris Olympics I tweeted something about the Australian breakdancer, Raygun. It went viral. The post was viewed over 1 million times and got more than 700 retweets. It was quoted in the...
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My latest shop project, a hood ornament using the skull of an alligator. Wife has mixed feelings about it; I do not.🤘 Now I just need to give him a name 🤔🐊
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