Our Hometown
Nashua | The Gate City
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Claudia Decker talks about what Nashua,... New Hampshire's Gate City means to her.
Claudia Decker talks about what Nashua,... New Hampshire's Gate City means to her, and her role in it.
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Our Hometown
Nashua | The Gate City
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Claudia Decker talks about what Nashua,... New Hampshire's Gate City means to her, and her role in it.
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There are many gate cities, actually throughout the United States, but Nashua embodies and has embodied that meaning to me from the moment that I set foot here.
And I started considering my future among all of the different people that that are part of this great city.
So for me, a gate is an entry way.
It's it's a place that you walk through that that you consider other people that have come before you and you wonder what is my place going to be?
What can I offer to the tapestry of contributors that have already come here and that have already left legacies And they're leaving legacies even as we speak.
And so that's what being a gate city means to me and in every sense of the word Nashua is that and has been that in the time that I've been graced to be here.
I've been to places where you have the vocational school and you have the school where the academics are run, not Nashua.
We house both in both of our high schools and the spirit of our schools is that we have something for every student, for every learner that walks through our doors.
And we honor all paths be it the trades, academics, the military, the arts.
There is something there for everyone that walks through from brand new teachers like myself to students from all walks.
And it's a source of great, great pride for me.
I married into a family of German French immigrants, and so my mother in law has this amazing talent of making quilts.
And when she loves you, she shows you by creating these amazing pieces of art.
And that's what they are.
They're just pieces of art.
And so if I could create a quilt of my memories of Nashua, I would take you through the downtown in the winters on our winter stroll, the multicultural festivals, the drives to end hunger.
And actually, now that we're speaking, I can say so from this quilt, the centerpiece the big piece that would go in the middle that really revealed to me the heart and the spirit of the city was the pandemic.
Our schools and places like the United Way and all the different houses of worship where we all figured out ways to feed kids, even though we had a social distance where we had to come out of our houses and in many cases get over our own fears of contamination.
And, you know, before there was a vaccine to provide lunches, to provide breakfasts.
Programs like 68 Hours of Hunger or where I'm not thinking of the program, but there's actually one where you go with a group of people and you camp out and you experience what it might be to be homeless for a night.
And so I would say that the pandemic is the one event that showed not just us, but everyone around us, the heart of our city.
Everybody came in and figured out a way to take care of each other.
That's who we are.
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