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“Ah, he was a dear little man,” recalled George Masa’s friend and fellow hiker, the late Asheville architect Anthony Lord.

Dressed in a T-shirt and jeans with blue eyes peering out from under a baseball cap that corrals his bushy hair, 29-year-old Aaron Grier looks no different than a host of young men who call Asheville

On a November day 40 years ago, a dedication ceremony attended by 300 on the banks of the Davidson River near Brevard officially opened the Art Loeb Trail.

When John Cooper opened the front door of Valle Crucis’ Mast General Store in 1980, he walked into a virtual time capsule.