Sara James and Ginger Mauney signed their book “The Best of Friends” about these two renaissance women and their search for their dreams. Sara James, a Pulitzer Prize winning news anchor choose the asphalt jungle of glass and steel where the communication media corporations are the resident predatory animals and Ginger Mauney went to South Africa where she became friends with a band of baboons where she learned her skills which eventually made her a world famous wild animal filmmaker. Both Sara and Ginger struggled to reconcile traditional roles for women in society with their personal passions - one for film making and the other for reporting. Both Sara and Ginger are examples of the new roles women are achieving in society today and the empowerment which comes with that role.

The book is a wonderful read as the story line zigzags back and forth from Sara’s life to Ginger’s life and back again and at each crossing reaffirming what it means to be a really best friend.

by: Dick Welton

Sharon Baldacci (L) with Ginger Mauney

Sara James, Ginger Mauney and Deidre McElroy

Joan Marple (L) with niece Sara James (C) and Ginger Mauney (R)

Joan Marple (L) with niece Sara James (C) and Ginger Mauney (R)

Mary Anne Hopkins with Sara James (L) and Ginger Mauney with Nancy Halstead.

Ginger Mauney with Nancy Halstead

Mary Anne Hopkins with Sara James

Bill Gibbs (right) with Sara James and Ginger Mauney