In 1951, he became the second person known to have walked the trail in a single trek -- a "thru-hike" -- covering some 2,000 miles from Georgia to Maine in 123 days.
A master of figurative art is now focused on the work of other artists, gifting a collection of more than 100 paintings by emerging and established artists to Maine's Portland Museum of Art.
Beaches from Crystal River, Florida, to Ogunquit, Maine, have been under advisories warning about water quality this week because of elevated levels of bacteria associated with fecal waste.