Our Hometown
Nashua | Student Filmmaker Series: Nathan Burns/Carolyn Byrn
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Nathan Burns edited by Carolyn Byrne
These stories are from "Our Hometown Student Filmmakers". A series of short films made by students from Nashua High School. Nathan Burns edited by Carolyn Byrne
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Our Hometown
Nashua | Student Filmmaker Series: Nathan Burns/Carolyn Byrn
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These stories are from "Our Hometown Student Filmmakers". A series of short films made by students from Nashua High School. Nathan Burns edited by Carolyn Byrne
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Nashua is a unique city here.
Nashua was very different from what it was when I was growing up.
I used to run around and play in the woods with a lot of my friends hanging out in those areas.
And now, you know, they've slowly developed over time and different houses.
I think the other thing too, about Nashua that's kind of nice is I feel like you can get pretty much anything that you need in Nashua.
I think the biggest thing that got me back into to teaching, so I went to school for teaching biology or not for teaching biology, but for bio.
And I thought I was going to do research and I was working at Mass General Hospital doing research on cystic fibrosis and ended up connecting with Kathy, who was teaching ninth grade bio at Elm Street at the time, and was getting ready to graduate.
But she had asked me to come in and talk about some of the stuff that I was working on.
So I came in and talked to her students.
They were all freshmen and just kind of had an opportunity to kind of explain what I was doing, what the research project was all about.
And I really kind of enjoyed that experience and I think that's kind of what led me to say, you know what?
You know, aside from my mom being a teacher and then my fiance at the time who wanted to be a teacher, I kind of said, you know, it was kind of a fun, fun experience.
And I thought it might be something that I'd want to do.
Yeah, it was kind of kind of unique.
So my mom was a teacher growing up, too, so, you know, I knew, you know what she was experiencing throughout those years and had a lot of wonderful teachers growing up at elementary and elementary school going to Dunstable, had some of my favorite teachers of all time Ms Richard, my gym teacher, who are so recall fondly.
I actually ran into her Hayward's ice cream shop over the summer.
It was nice reconnecting with her.
I think one of the unique things you know about my position is that Mr. Richard and I, Keith Richard, the principal at Nashua South, kind of have a very similar path.
So both of our parents grew up in Nashua.
They went to school with each other.
So we're pretty good friends, my dad's friends with his dad and my mom and and his mom, are friends, they kind of meet up sometimes at the hair salon and chat and stuff like that, which is kind of funny.
We talk pretty much every day and it's kind of nice just knowing that, you know, we're here for each other.
Sometimes something happens in North and I don't know what to do, so I'll pick up the phone and ask him, Hey, if you ever had this type of situation or something like this happened before, you know, and he's quick to respond and give me some advice and I'll do the same for him any time.
And but it's nice to just know you have that other person on the other end of the line.
My wife always kind of recalled, you know, she wasn'’’t my wife at the time, just a friend.
But she always, you know, Nashua seems like a great place to be and a great place to live.
And she just wanted to check it out.
And, you know, eventually we got together and started dating and brought her up into Nashua and she could see kind of, the good that was here.
And, you know, she ended up saying, you know, it is a great place.
That's how we ended up kind of finding this place to stay and live and, you know, neither one of us regret it.
I feel very fortunate being here, you know, for the vast majority of my life.
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