New Hampshire Author Presents Book of Travels in National Parks

Nancy-Ann Feren Nancy-Ann Feren and her husband, Dick, are definitely not your average travelers. They have explored all the sites in the National Park System, driving to most of them and camping whenever possible. They discovered a lifelong love for the national parks when they, with their two young children, visited Acadia National Park in Maine in 1977. Three years later they drove across the country with three children in the back seat of their non-air conditioned car. They learned to deal with extreme heat, with cold, with rain and how to make travel fun for all involved. Nancy-Ann has written a book called "Not Your Average Travelers : 40 Years of Adventures in All the U.S. National Parks and will be at the Dover Public Library on Monday, Jan. 13, 2020 at 6:30 p.m. This book is based on the journals that each member of the family kept on every trip from 1980 to the present. On that first cross-country trip, eight-year-old Tara wrote, "This is neat! I like this. We're going up a mountain and my ears are popping. I can smell the fresh air. It tingles in my nose. This is the life. This is the life I'd love to have. Trees, birds, flowers, mountains, and streams. All these are going by me like the making of memories." As the children grew up, Nancy-Ann and Dick down-sized to a two-person tent and continued their explorations. They canoed through mangrove swamps, waited for a bear and her two cubs to cross the path a few yards in front of them, shared s'mores by countless campfires, and traveled by bush plane to remote parks in Alaska, all while learning about and enjoying the history and nature found in the national parks of the United States. This book chronicles 40 years of their memorable adventures. Nancy-Ann, a retired fith-grade teacher, has a BA from Wellesley College and an MA in Teaching from the University of New Hampshire. She and her husband live in Manchester, where they both grew up.