July 12, 2021 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com (ahgunther@yahoo.com)      Stare at a door long enough, and it will open by itself. No, this isn’t telekinesis, merely but sometimes profoundly, a memory trip.      We open and… Continue reading

Painting by gunther July 4, 2021 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@yahoo.com      TAPPAN, N.Y. – “When in the course of human events” begins the document crafted for July 4, 1776, a federal holiday now recognized as Independence… Continue reading

June 28, 2021 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@yahoo.com        I did not have to look up, as I was arranging my pocket money, to know the age of the fellow counting my change. He had to… Continue reading

June 21, 2021 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@yahoo.com      While away from the daily deadline of the newspaper business (regrettably), I forever remain one of the irreverent, questioning, doubting souls with a heart that melts. So in… Continue reading

The McCullers home, South Broadway, South Nyack, N.Y. /gunther photo June 14, 2021 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@yahoo.com In a coincidence, if there is such, recently I walked past the late writer Carson McCullers’ Broadway house in South… Continue reading

June 7, 2021   By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@yahoo.com Envelopes — legal sized or not — may be an anachronism in the digital world, in this morphing time of Tweets, Facebook posts and cell phone text shorthand, but… Continue reading

  By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@hotmail.com No Memorial Day, USA or elsewhere, is without heartfelt words and tribute, parades, wreaths, re-mourning. What is missing are the voices of the fallen. Would that we could hear them. What would they… Continue reading

  May 24, 2021 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@hotmail.com NYACK, N.Y. — In the birthplace village of Edward Hopper, the famed American realist artist (1882-1967), it is a simple thing to note the early morning Hudson River light… Continue reading

gunther photo May 17, 2021 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@hotmail.com In the virus time many have found the slower pace and solitude that eluded them in the ordinary hustle-bustle of making a living, holding things together, joining the… Continue reading

May 10, 2021 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@yahoo.com      Royal Clinton Taplin or RCT, as this longtime newspaperman was either admiringly or derisively called by reader, public official and wrong-doer, has hit the last keys on -30-,… Continue reading