http://qui.live.mediaspanonlinen.com/rss/ Quincy Herald Whig en-us The marching orders came last week. I am moving, and I am sad. Don't worry, I'm not going very far. The distance is about 12 feet. My chair and desk are going, even the drawers. My sunny Herald-Whig disposition and cheer are coming, too. We are moving around the newsroom so certain editors can sit closer together, and reporters who share similiar beats don't have to get up from their desks. It all makes sense, even if we have to alert landfills in a seven-state area. The big issue is a filing cabinet containing 13-plus years of stuff. After assuring the Quincy Fire Department Hazmat Team members they weren't needed, I started going through it last week and shoveled through archeological layers of stuff. Lots of trinkets, notes, photos, award certificates, old Baldwin School press passes, style books, files on old cases and ticket stubs to long-ago sporting events were discovered. Why were packages of Emeril's Original Bam seasoning? I don't know. A bunch of newspapers from the early 2000s were discovered. Why were stories written about lethal injections, murders, weather catastrophes and assorted events kept? I don't know. One look and most of it came back, and that's good enough. One story was kept from May 11, 2001 about legendary Quincy band JWMF. I laughed out loud when I read it, because the three guys in the band, Josh Kattelman, Randy Wells and Mark Bokish, were and are nuts in a good way. I found two VCR tapes from the World Free Fall Convention. From what I remember, I had to watch them in a conference room, not a newsroom full of people. There were a couple of other VCR tapes without labels. Is there any way to even watch these anymore? Lots of photos were unearthed, and I kept some. Many were of my daughter Emily, including a Gus Macker team photo from when she was 8 or 9 that nearly make me cry. She's got her goofy grin with teammates Karlee Dreyer, Emily Kipley and Jaclyn Cawthon. Whig Line magnets littered the bottom of the drawer. You remember Whig Line, right? If weather was bad, you had to call it to see if your game was canceled. Other treasures included a First Tee of Great River range golf ball, a Rebecca St. James CD and a Dr. William Glasser media pass dated March 31, 2000. Wait a second ... so that's where my daughter's Social Security card ended up! An old life insurance policy. A notebook from a long ago murder trial. A gaudy orange ruler from the Illinois Department of Transportation Urban League. Pitched, thrown away, dispatched, respectively. Meeting the same fate were political bumper stickers, a technical manual for a computer last used in 2007, 23 pen caps and something called HotHands-2 hand warmers. If memory serves, the hand warmers were from when President Bill Clinton came to town on a bitterly cold January day more than a decade ago. Holy Schmoly, an ILMO Smokehouse record! Given to me by a fellow reporter a long time ago. I'm keeping it. I'm also keeping my autograph from legendary professional wrestler Harley Race. I'm getting a little emotional about it all, but I'm now ready for the big move. Except I just realized I have two more full drawers of junk to go through. -- rhart@whig.com/221-3370 http://qui.live.mediaspanonline.com/new_story/Hart-Column-052912