Steve Mullen: A pop quiz for the first quarter: The answers

If this column seems more incoherent than usual, the you probably missed last week’s questions about the top local news stories of the first three months of 2010.

Ask Rufus: Streetcars in Columbus

A reader asked about the streetcars or electric trolley line that once served Columbus. For an answer, I called on Columbus architect and historian Sam Kaye, who knows more about the old trolley lines than anyone else.

Birney Imes: Abolitionists in Caledonia

Mike Murphy attributes his love of history to television and playing with toy soldiers as a kid.

Garthia Elena Burnett: Five men, one mission

I don’t know four people who I get along with a hundred percent of the time.

Steve Mullen: A pop quiz for the first quarter

We’re at the end of the first quarter of 2010, so we’re having a little pop quiz to see if you’ve been paying attention.

Birney Imes: Surviving with grace

After her Friday morning workout at the Fitness Factor, Pat Wayman came home, put on her work clothes and spent the next five hours clearing underbrush in the woods bordering her backyard. Around 4:30 a friend came over and the two of them went through her beehives.

Bert Montgomery: The double-wide gospel

Roger Miller sings about trailers, be they for sale or rent. Kid Rock reminds us that unlike Ice Cube, he ain't outta Compton but straight outta trailer. And Jimmy Buffet, the son of a son of a sailor, is just glad he doesn't live in a trailer.

Steve Mullen: What would Ulysses do?

It’s worth taking a tour of Mississippi State University’s newly digitized version of “The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant," a chunk of the president’s writings and other Grant-related items now housed there.

Birney Imes: Sparks fly

Eunice Pruitt has been obsessive about welding since he was 6 years old.

Steve Mullen: When the power goes out

A Titanic clap of thunder jolts me awake with a start. That one must’ve been right on top of us. A second peal a minute later knocks out the power. There’s a moment of darkness before WCBI’s generator kicks on, allowing the building’s sign to throw a little artificial light down Fifth Street.

Birney Imes: Church of dreams

When Darren Leach was 9 years old his grandmother told him he was going to be a preacher. It took more than three decades — not until 2007 — for Macy Jones’ prophecy to come true.

Ask Rufus: How did Military Road get its name?

Whenever something gets torn up, people tend to pay more attention. So it is with Military Road in Columbus.

Steve Mullen: Goodbye Barry, with regrets

A recent New York Times article, “Depression’s upside,” explores something known as rumination, the thought process that defines depression. Some people are more prone to rumination — which essentially is stewing over things — than others.

Birney Imes: Random notes

Friday afternoon on the way to meet a friend at the Riverwalk, a poster on a downtown store window caught my eye.

Steve Mullen: Lessons from Admiral Ackbar

Recent events at Ole Miss make me wonder if someone broke into the marijuana farm and is handing out free samples.

Birney Imes: Art Johnson’s art

On a recent Thursday afternoon Daylan Hairston stood outside a metal building scrubbing the inside of a car hood balanced on two sawhorses. Hairston, 19, is a senior at Victory Christian Academy, and has the good fortune of already knowing what he wants to do with his life. Daylan plans to work in the auto body shop of Art Johnson, a man who claims Hairston as his “adopted” grandson.

Tim Pratt: What we learned from a hitchhiker named John

When I picked up a hitchhiker named John last Friday on Highway 82, I never dreamed what a stir he and I would cause in the community.

Jay Lacklen: Aurora borealis

Flying in a military jet across far northern Canada one night, I encountered as brilliant a display of northern lights, or the aurora borealis, as I had ever seen that provoked both scientific and spiritual thoughts.

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