Our Hometown
Nashua | Student Filmmaker Series: John Richard
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These stories are from "Our Hometown Student Filmmakers". A series of short films made by students from Nashua High School. John Richard edited by Jackson Torres
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Nashua | Student Filmmaker Series: John Richard
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These stories are from "Our Hometown Student Filmmakers". A series of short films made by students from Nashua High School. John Richard edited by Jackson Torres
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I grew up.
I was born in 1947, so I was born on one of the first waves of the baby boomers to go through.
So when I was born, my early childhood is the 1950s, and that was kind of an idyllic time in Nashua.
Nashua is like about 29 to 35000 people then.
And we were very neighborhood oriented.
So you had ethnic groups here, a Greek neighborhood, a French neighborhood, Irish neighborhoods, that kind of thing.
There were neighborhood pickup games would happen all the time where you went to play football or basically get a bunch of kids to challenge another neighborhood person by the name of Don Markey was the head of the social studies department, hired me to be a teacher, and I taught for 6 to 7 years in the social studies department And until I moved to junior high, it was called junior high.
Back then.
That lasted for about 11 to 12 years.
And then I was asked by the superintendent, Joe Giuliano, or at that time if I would be interested in going to Birch Hill, as a principal.
And I went home and asked my wife was elementary teacher, what do you think?
Would I be okay at the elementary level that you'd be great at that level.
I went in and I became the principal at Birch Hill for 14 years.
Nashua was a small industrial town mill town, about 29 to 35000.
We're now up to like 88, 90,000 depending upon the year, and we blossomed to about 120,000 during the day of people come in to work in Nashua and then they leave at night too.
We have two boys.
Both boys are in Nashua, never left.
One lives in my wife's former house.
Keith lives next door to me.
And so.
So we are we tight.
My brothers and sisters all live within two or three miles.
So we have we.
It's that community.
For me, it's home.
It's like everything we needed was here.
Why would you go anywhere else?
I always thought of Nashua as a very welcoming city, community based city and a city that was forthright, looking at the future and knowing that we'’’re not locked into that time period, that you've got to look beyond the walls and look beyond as to how we can improve and expand and be different than we are today.
Well, there were restaurants in Nashua that no longer exist that everybody talks about.
If you're a Facebook fan, you always say, what about this?
And the restaurants were big that people came from all over.
And the fifties and sixties there was a place called the Green Ridge Turkey Farm.
And people who live in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, would come up for that.
That's located right now where I think the bookstore.
What's the bookstore?
Barnes and Noble was right on that corner.
That was I actually a restaurant with Turkey'’’s up on the hill behind it, and that was loaded with it.
Well, I think that Nashua has such a a vision to take care of everyone, you know, as a again, the foresight that they had one of a few.
And again, our son Keith is too, born, raised, went to college, came back.
I've been here forever and the very people say how how can that be?
How can you be so satisfied to be in one place?
This is home.
It means home to me.
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