Former Manchester Teacher Releases Travelogue

Nancy-Ann Feren, a Manchester, NH native, recently turned her family’s extensive vacation journal entries into a captivating book about the National Park System. Feren, now retired, was a Manchester fifth grade teacher by day, but a great traveler during her vacation time. Not Your Average Travelers: 40 Years of Adventures in All the U.S. National Parks chronicles the Feren family’s visits to sites in the National Park System. “The book describes our sightseeing and camping in the parks and preserves,” said Feren. “It also includes tips for traveling with children, inexpensive travel, meal preparation, and camping, in general.”

Not Your Average Travelers: 40 Years of Adventures in All the U.S. National Parks is Feren’s debut book; however, she is a life-long writer. “I have written letters, journals, short pieces for class, etc.,” she said. “I once wrote a letter as an entry in a contest in the New Hampshire Sunday News that won my father ‘NH Father of the Year’ many years ago.”

Encouraged by family and friends, Feren began working on her book after retirement from 29 years of teaching in the Queen City. “I started compiling all the journals and slides we had collected. When we are traveling, I do a lot of writing in the car while my husband is driving and at the campgrounds in the evening,” Feren said. She transcribes her handwritten journal entries once she returns to the house that has been her life-long home.

When Feren is not traveling, she enjoys reading, doing puzzles, baking, walking, and spending time with her grandchildren.

Feren is a member of the NH Writers’ Project.

Founded in 1988, the New Hampshire Writers’ Project (NHWP) is the state’s largest literary arts nonprofit organization. The NHWP fosters and celebrates New Hampshire writers and provides a supportive community to writers of all ages, experience levels, backgrounds and genres. NHWP core programs, publications, website and annual 603 Writers’ Conference provide writers and readers with opportunities to meet each other, network and learn more about the art of writing and the business of publishing.

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