Let’s go!
Looking to get away? Find our summer travel guide inside
SCHOLARSHIP SPECIAL: See the area seniors who won awards, 6A-7A L A W R E NC E
Journal-World ®
$1.50
SUNDAY • MAY 18 • 2014
ADVENTURES IN BEER
LJWorld.com
Dad walking the hill with daughter as both graduate By Ben Unglesbee bunglesbee@ljworld.com
Today thousands of parents will watch from the sidelines while their grown children walk through Kansas University’s Campanile, down the hill and into Memorial Stadium, as countless parents KU graduates have done before on will walk down the graduation day. hill to Memorial But Dan Mercer Stadium at won’t be among them. 10:30 a.m. He’ll be walking down the hill, too, next to his daughter. Mercer started college at Kansas University in 1978 at age 19. He paid his own
Today
Please see FAMILY, page 8A
Richard Gwin/Journal-World Photo
MARIA SCARPELLO AND BRIAN DEVINE, both 31, lead an unusual lifestyle, traveling the country in a motor home and maintaining a blog about craft breweries called TheRoamingPint.com. They both also have jobs that allow them to work from the road.
Why wait until retirement age? Young Lawrence couple roam the country looking for the perfect pint
W
e’ve all been there. It is March Madness time in Lawrence, and, except on the rarest of occasions, it never ends well. Those who bleed Crimson and Blue know that sometimes the real madness begins after the final buzzer on that final defeat of the season. For Maria Scarpello, it was the NCAA Tourna-
ment of 2010, and No. 1 seed KU had just suffered a heartbreaking secondround loss to Northern Iowa. “It was a horrible night,” Scarpello recalls. But a friend of hers already had a plan to dull the disappointment. He was packing up his motor home and taking a three-month trip to some national parks. “I thought ‘wow,’ you
can do that?” Scarpello, now 31, says. “I always thought you had to be 65 to do that. The next month, we had an RV.” Since then, Scarpello and her longtime partner, Brian Devine, have been to 40 states, 376 breweries and enough fairs, festivals and concerts that it has become burdensome to keep track. Please see COUPLE, page 2A
Arts&Entertainment 1C-8C Events listings Books 6C Horoscope Classified 1D-10D Movies Deaths 2A Opinion
High: 72
Low: 58
Today’s forecast, page 6B
By Stephen Montemayor smontemayor@ljworld.com
Lawhorn’s Lawrence
Chad Lawhorn
A cold rain was falling outside when Larry Hopkins shot his 61-year-old wife, Margaret, as she slept inside their north-central Lawrence home one early November morning last year, two weeks shy of their 24th wedding anniversary. The couple married 100 Hopkins days after meeting on a blind date. Larry calls much of the time that followed “the happy years.” Toward the end, their days together became increasingly
clawhorn@ljworld.com
INSIDE
Partly sunny
‘Happy years’ gave way to failing health, decision to kill
2B, 8C Puzzles 10D Sports 2C Television 11A
7C, 10D 1B-6B 2B, 8C
Join us at Facebook.com/LJWorld and Twitter.com/LJWorld
Baker ceremonies
REAL BIG
www.ticketweb.com/dowt or call 866-468-7630
Vol.156/No.136 46 pages
A student center is named in honor of the retiring president, and couples renew vows on campus. Page 3A
REAL BIG
An amazing ride with Thomas the Tank Engine™! Plus tons of other activities.
Please see HOPKINS, page 9A
Save $2 per ticket with code LJW14!
May 30-June 1 & June 6-8, 2014
MIDLAND RAILWAY 1515 High Street Baldwin City, KS www.midlandrailway.org
Day Out With Thomas™ Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends™ Based on The Railway Series by The Reverend W. Awdry. © 2014 Gullane (Thomas) Limited. Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends, Thomas & Friends and Day Out With Thomas are trademarks of Gullane (Thomas) Limited. © 2014 HIT Entertainment Limited. © 2014 MEGA Brands Inc. All rights reserved. MEGA BLOKS and the MEGA BLOKS logo are registered trademarks of Mega Brands Inc.