A local archive invited residents to record short stories about an old railway station. At first, the editors arranged every recording by the speaker's age. That order was easy to produce, but listeners could not follow how the station itself had changed. The editors then identified three recurring periods: the years of crowded commuter service, the decline after a new subway line opened, and the station's later use as a cultural space. Within each period, they placed a personal memory after a brief factual introduction. Pronouns and time expressions were checked only after the larger sequence was clear. This revision did not erase the speakers' individual voices. Instead, it gave each memory a position in a shared timeline. Listeners could now see why a reference to “the empty platform” meant something different before and after the subway opened.