SUNDAY , MAY 10 , 2015 INSIDE Section » Books 2C » Travel 4C » Puzzles 10C LIFE C PEOPLE & PLACES SN StarNewsOnline.com HUMOR CELIA RIVENBARK Mom & me o celebrate local moms this Mother’s Day, we $100 gift card to the jeweler. ‘Time’ list asked readers to share photos of them with Nearly 200 of you shared photos, from modern selfi es to their moms and asked moms to send in shots treasured mementos. And a few things were clear: Moms fails to of them with their families. For incentive, we love us. And we love them back. offered up a $500 gift card to Albert F. Rhodes So, moms, wherever you are, we hope you enjoy your day humor Tto the entry that most touched a panel of StarNews moms. today. And we hope these photos, and those inside on pages 1 left o! Four other entries were randomly selected to each receive a 6-7C, are evidence of how much you rock. ell, crappity- doo-dah. “Time” Wmagazine has once again released its list of The 100 Most Infl uential People and I’m not on it. This would be fi ne except there are a whole lot of peo- ple on that list I’ve never even heard of, which means that I should’ve had a fi ght- ing chance. Sure, everybody knows Raul Castro and Vladimir Putin but who in the name of grandma’s step-ins is Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche? Oh. Famous Nigerian novelist. My bad. Perhaps I should get out more. Let’s face it; my last book read was really more of a pamphlet scanned at the doctor’s offi ce and writ- ten by someone purporting to be Joe’s Colon. I like how every year “Time” makes a show of having famous people write the tributes for the current crop of 100. This year, Mar- tha Stewart wrote the Kim Kardashian tribute. This read as though Martha held GRAND PRIZE WINNER $500 GIFT CARD TO ALBERT F. RHODES See CELIA | 12C My 90 year old mother, June Bair, and I were waiting at the doctor’s of! ce. I told her to make a funny face and I would post a sel! e... this is what I got! Perfect! – Submitted by Barbara Goodman OTHER WINNERS SHARE Each of the following were randomly selected from all entries to receive a $100 gift card to Albert F. Rhodes. WITH US What do you do to weather the storm? Stormy weather has al- ready swirled along the East- ern seaboard and hurricane “season” technically hasn’t even started yet. Your Sti l l, we have VOICE months of storm- watching Family tradition is big in our household! When my brother and sister moved to Denver, ahead of us, we had to keep them going! One of mom’s favorite things to do with all of us is a n d t h a t keeping our fun family outings alive. We get to have fun and spend the best moments means it’s doing this. It is a must when everyone is in town and something we never miss doing. time to stock My mom has been the best role model and mother one could be! I am so happy that the survival she is my mom and happy that we as a family can do great things together! She kit. Bottled stresses the importance of being a family and that we need to always be there for one water and extra batteries are This 2013 picture is of my daughter’s two children and another, and I couldn’t agree more. We are amazingly close, and it is because of her must-haves, but what other me taking a walk toward the beach. Sharing special and our great bowling traditions that have kept it that way. My mom is the best! items do you keep on hand? moments like this with them brings me closer to – Submitted by Katherine Harriss Board games? Bourbon? my daughter, Hannah. (Also, my son, Matthew, built Shotgun? Spam? Whether and installed the pagoda-style arch ahead of us.) My you’re a hard-core prepper husband, Scott, captured the moment. – Submitted by Katherine Dodd with meals for days or tech- My baby girl and I at nophile with a solar-powered our favorite spot with iPad charger, we want to our favorite loves at hear from you. 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Dedicated to you. 1414 Medical Center Drive, Wilmington (910) 763-7363 www.WilmingtonSurgical.com 2C SUNDAY , MAY 10 , 2015 STARNEWS » www.StarNewsOnline.com BOOKS SN StarNewsOnline.com/books McCullough’s book tells story of the Wright brothers Small-town antics The Wright Brothers” (Simon & Schuster), by David Mc- Cullough Miss Julia a A new book about the Wright brothers does more murder suspect in than chronicle their pains- taking, game-changing Dare led latest series entry breakthrough in man’s fl ight. It reveals what remarkable By Ben Steelman men they were: their unpar- Seldon [email protected] alleled work ethic, dogged persistence and unwavering orth Carolina writer modesty. to write Ann B. Ross’ 16th “Miss “The Wright Brothers,” by Julia” novel starts a bit Pulitzer Prize-winning his- slowly, but soon hits the torian David McCullough, VMI novel madcap goings-on that draws on the family’s per- Nfans clearly love. sonal correspondence and t was quite a challenge. “Miss Julia Lays Down the Law” diaries to create an intimate Pat Conroy , Mr. “Great fi nds our heroine in hot water with portrait of Wilbur and Or- I Santini,” double-dog- the police. ville, from their precocious dared Lynn Seldon to write Julia Murdoch , the self-appointed childhoods until their the VMI equivalent of “The arbiter of all that’s fi tting and prop- deaths. Lords of Discipline.” “It er in rural Abbotsville, N.C., has Their mechanical aptitude took me fi ve years to do it,” her nerves nearly frazzled as usual. is captured in an account said the Oak Island resident. Not only is the Christmas season from their niece, who said The result, Seldon’s novel approaching, with cookies to be her uncles would play with “Virginia’s Ring” came out baked and ornaments to be made their toys until they broke, last year. It will be the topic for charity. “then repair them so that for the next edition of Pro- Worse, Connie Clayborn has de- they were better than when logue, the monthly book scended upon town. they were bought.” club run by the StarNews The wife of the manager of the They chose Kitty Hawk, and WHQR. big new plastics plant, Connie has N.C., as their site to conduct Seldon will answer read- moved into a glass-and-stone mon- experiments in their mission ers’ questions beginning at strosity in Abbotsville’s fi rst (and to fl y after reviewing records 7 p.m. Monday in the WHQR so far only) gated community. of the monthly wind veloci- gallery, upstairs at 254 N. Coming from Up North (did she ties at more than 100 weath- Front St. Admission is free, mention she went to Vassar?), Con- er bureau stations around and refreshments will be nie invites Miss Julia and the rest the country. Their success served. of Abbotsville society over for tea. came after four years of Seldon, a proud member There, she tries to sign them up for trial and error, despite skep- of the Virginia Military In- her new campaign to raise Abbots- tics who were certain it stitute’s Class of 1983, met ville up from the squalor it’s in, Author Ann B. Ross has her usual fun with Mayberry-style, small-town antics, could never be done Conroy through mutual mostly by bulldozing everything. compounded with a little unreliability in her narrator. Contributed photo McCullough fully suc- friends in Charleston. A This doesn’t sit well with Miss ceeds in humanizing these four-hour lunch ensued, Julia, of course, who doesn’t care BOOK REVIEW serving on a state judicial commit- giants of history. with plenty of comparisons how they do things in Boston or tee. Or that her main ally in local between the two men’s alma Switzerland. Connie’s words, how- ‘MISS JULIA LAYS DOWN THE LAW’ law enforcement, Sgt. Coleman – Rash Madcour, AP maters. ever, fall particularly hard on Author: Ann B. Ross Bates , is currently sitting on a plat- Conroy, of course, gradu- Publisher: Viking, $26.95 form on top of a billboard out on the Emma Sue Ledbetter , the pastor’s Price: $26.95 ated from The Citadel and wife, who labored so hard to reno- boulevard – in the middle of No- used it, not always fl atter- vate the town park – the one Connie vember – raising money to buy ingly, in such books as ridiculed as being tacky. Poor playground equipment. BEST “Lords of Discipline,” “The Emma Sue soon takes to her bed lia’s whereabouts and alibis.