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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A missing Appalachian Trail hiker from Rhinebeck, N.Y., was last seen headed north from Killington on July 9, according to Vermont State Police.Robert Kerker, 67, who goes by the trail name of “Steady Eddie,” was reported...

By David Corriveau

While hiking the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine in 1948, Earl Shaffer followed a stretch of the old King’s Highway in North Pomfret, between a farmhouse and a barn, en route to the White River in West Hartford.Shaffer was the first person to...