Before they arrived at his parents’ house in Deering, Jim Cowan warned his future wife that his mother and father were unique. Elizabeth waved it off as something unspectacular, a quirky trait that Cowan saw as embarrassing. Sure enough, though, the couple pulled into the driveway and saw Nancy Cowan out front, wearing a protective […]
CONCORD, NH— Beloved wife, mother, grandmother, Master falconer, teacher, speaker, dogsledder, historian, and bestselling author Nancy Cowan, founder of the New Hampshire School of Falconry, died Saturday morning, January 9, at Concord Hospital of Covid-19. She was 74. Born Nancy Young in Ottawa, Kansas, March 12, 1947 the second child of Frank M. Young and […]
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Juniper Point author publishes “Peregrine Spring”
In “Peregrine Spring,” Nancy Cowan reveals how she's spent decades working with birds of prey and their "wild instinct."
Nancy Cowan has been a falconer since the beginning.
With a huff, and a puff, and a cock of her head to the side, Banner the lanner falcon announced yesterday at 4 p.m. that yes, she had made it through her surgery just fine, thank you. Would everyone please stop staring at her now?
WATCH: A blind falcon in New Hampshire has undergone landmark eye surgery.
Nancy Cowan’s NH School of Falconry is one of only a handful of schools in the nation that teaches the art.
