Earl Shafer finaly in his highschool hal l of fame

“hey everybody i know it's been a long time since I've posted but I have something cool to offer now. In my line of work we get a lot of small town newspapers and in the York Daily Record April 20th ed there was an article about Earl Shaffer(for those of you who might not know who this is, he was the first solo-hiker to thru-hike the AT in one season way back in 1948)
I just thought you would like to know that he was inducted into his highschool hall of fame. I have the article, but no scanner so if anyone would like to scan it and post it somewhere let me know.”

“I found the York Daily Record and got this abstract thru their search engine, but can't link to the article.


School honors Trail legend At age 83, Earl Shaffer was finally inducted into the William Penn's Hall of Fame.

HIKING INTO THE HALL OF FAME
York Daily Record; York, Pa.; Apr 20, 2002; JEFF DEWEES Daily Record correspondent;

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Abstract:
"I remember in 1998, when I was in Tennessee, there were rumors that Earl was on the trail, that there had been Earl Shaffer sightings," laughed 41-year-old Dave Donaldson, who met and befriended Shaffer on that hike. "Mention the name Earl Shaffer, it's awe, integrity, respect."

"I was sitting with friends, and here comes Earl, alone of course," Donaldson said. "We were ...


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