Vendors, pumpkins, and history fill Hancock

Buddy Dyer loads the cider press with apples as Scott McCusker cranks it up. This is the first time the Hancock Lions Club has used the machine since Canal Apple Days. Dyer said the machine probably dates back to the late 1800s and in making the fresh apple cider, they had used 22 bushels by 11 a.m.

Chris Workman, aka “Conrad,” shows (from left to right) Conrad Shultz, Emmett Shultz, and Aubrey Sanders of Warfordsburg…