Roger Shaffer is 96 years old, and has hours and hours of stories to tell about growing up in Hanover Junction train station. Trains rolling past at all hours, the passengers wandering the station's lobby. He'll tell you about things that happened nearly a century ago, and he'll sprinkle in details like it happened yesterday.
Here's a video of Roger telling just a bit of what he remembers.
The earliest memory of the station was riding a tricycle around the lobby before the passengers got there. He remembers its color, the sounds of the station and the ambience of the building. And keep in mind much of this happened before World War I, before Babe Ruth, and before automobiles became the Next Big Thing.
Since the York County Park system refurbished the station, he's supplied the station with model-size replicas of the Junction's buildings and other structures.
He's an amazing source of local history.
Very interesting! Is there any more of the video? I met up with a similar "storyteller" once, he was the navigator on the airplane that dropped the A-Bomb on Hiroshima.