Once Nathan Caradimos becomes interested in a subject, you might say he gets a little carried away.

"I'm 'a little historian,' that's what my mom calls me," the junior at West Wareham Academy said, explaining that he is constantly devoting himself to “projects,” that seem to become somewhat all-encompassing.

His latest project is investigating his school, West Wareham Academy, and he is hoping that he can find some former students to can visit and tell him and the current students its history.

“I know I sit in that classroom, 62 years later,” said Caradimos, pointing to a photograph taken at the school in 1948, featured in the book Images of America: Wareham, by local historians Susan Pizzolato and Linda Ames Byrne.   “But I don’t know which one” it is, Caradimos said.

Caradimos points out many differences between the pictures of the school in the book and the current building.  Some of the stone wall has been replaced with concrete, and the building has now been made handicap-accessible.  He wonders, however, what kids did before these changes if they had a broken leg, for instance.

He is also curious about how former students would react to the technology – televisions, computers, copy machines - that are now a part of a 21^st century school.

“It might bring up some happy memories too,” said Wendy Miranda, the coordinator of clinical and educational services at West Wareham Academy.

If you attended the West Wareham School and are interested in the helping Nathan, contact Mrs. Wendy Miranda, coordinator of clinical and educational services at 508-291-3534.