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Warner | A Creative Welcoming Community
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As a radio guy and author, Matt Esenwine talks about coming to Warner.
As a radio guy and author, Matt Esenwine talks about coming to Warner, and finding such a nurturing environment that, despite moving thirteen times in the past, he's convinced that this is the place where his roots have taken hold.
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Warner | A Creative Welcoming Community
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As a radio guy and author, Matt Esenwine talks about coming to Warner, and finding such a nurturing environment that, despite moving thirteen times in the past, he's convinced that this is the place where his roots have taken hold.
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I'm, an author.
And, and often people ask me, like, why did I decide to become an author?
And I didn't really plan it that way.
But, you know, this town is a very creative town.
I spent 20 years or so in radio in the Concord Lakes region, working for stations like JYY and the Wolf, and and I've been doing a lot of writing.
I've been writing poetry forever.
And, I came to Warner, to settle down because my wife was living here when we got married.
I moved to town, and I've since I've been able to meet all these creative folks.
And Warner really is a it's a great town because it is the the quintessential melting pot as, they say the country is supposed to be.
We've got the, the attorneys and the farmers, and we have the doctors and the authors and the artists and all these folks who, you know, there's older folks who've retired, there's younger folks who are coming into town, raising their kids is going to Simon's or being part of the, the WYSA of the Warner Youth Sports Association that I was part of for a number of years, like, there's just so many different people.
And, it's just a really it's a comforting, creative, welcoming community.
There's a couple of different authors, and illustrators here in town, that I've gotten to know over the years.
David Elliott and I've known for probably 10 or 12 years now.
True.
Kelley is just a little ways from me.
David Carroll is in downtown.
You've got all these folks and, and I got to to meet, Tommy DiPaolo.
And he was living up in New London before he passed away.
We would bump into each other at Market Basket.
We'd see each other at, at writers conferences and, and, you know, you just you start to, to, develop relationships and you learn from people whether you plan on learning or whether you realize you're learning or not, just by being around creative folks.
Which is why I'm part of a group called KidLit 603, which is a bunch of authors and illustrators from around the state of New Hampshire.
Jamie Kristoff and Adi Rule and, Deborah Bross and Marty Kelly and Lita Judge and all these folks from all over the state.
We, we meet sometimes here in town.
We meet at other places around the state.
And it's just, you know, again, it's sort of a microcosm of that melting pot that that is New Hampshire and is the country.
I have lived in a whole bunch of different places, being in radio, you know, you bounce around that.
The joke in radio is that there's actually only six people in the entire radio business, and we all just move around from station to station.
And so I've, I've actually moved, my, my ex-wife and daughters and, my wife now and our two kids, between all the moving around, probably 13 different places between New Hampshire, Nashville, Tennessee and Vermont and and we're settled.
I'm not moving.
And it's not I'm not just saying I'm not moving because I don't want to move.
But I'm not moving because I. I really feel comfortable with Warner.
Warner is just a very comfortable place.
It's a it's a, it's a thriving little community.
It's made up of so many different types of folks from from the doctors and attorneys to the to the farmers and the, and the creative folks.
And I feel very creative in this community.
Maybe it's the people that I've gotten to meet, and maybe it's just, you know, living in the country.
I grew up in the woods I grew up in Weare it's still a dirt road where I grew up.
So, there was a creek, in the back, a little pond in the back.
And what do you know, there's there's a brook behind our house here.
So it's very familial and familiar and comfortable and creative and welcoming and all the things that that a creative person needs.
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