By Arthur H. Gunther III Bahgunther@yahoo.com If you are fortunate, before you grow up but as you so quickly grow up, you’ll get to spend a few years with a patient, somewhat quiet, a bit odd grandfather like I did,… Continue reading

June 12, 2017 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com SAN ANTONIO, Texas — If music is a leveler, the proof is here. This city of mixed heritage, constant politeness and high temperatures seems to sing its way through the day… Continue reading

June 5, 2017 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com If you could see a person’s emotions, thoughts, likes and dislikes, even the soul, you would be looking at an abstract painting, for the elements of each reveal existence. Line, form… Continue reading

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

“On a Hill,” acrylic on wood May 22, 2017 By Arthur Henry Gunther III thecolumnrule.com Every child, kid, needs a place to get lost. You can’t always be with parents or siblings or even friends. There has to be your… Continue reading

“APPLES AT SINK” May 15, 2017 By Arthur Henry Gunther III thecolumnrule.com In the Rockland County, N.Y. of my late 1940s into 1950s youth, taking the same, long bicycle ride twice but a month apart often meant witnessing a disappearing… Continue reading

May 8, 2017 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com My grandmother was used to seeing road-worn men in old but once-pressed suit jackets at her back porch in Spring Valley, N.Y. They were there during the 1930s Great Depression, hobos… Continue reading

May 1, 2017 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com I needed a large circular template for a painting, and since neccesity is the mother of invention, I glanced across the basement and saw an old 33 rpm vinyl record, and… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III Thecolumnrule.com I live in Rockland County, N.Y., a semi-rural land when I was young but now a New York City suburb that is graying with older housing stock, demands for more urban-like density, rising infrastructure… Continue reading

April 16, 2017 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com When my son Arthur IV bought his small Upper Nyack, N.Y.,  house from Leroy Buckout, the owner explained that he long ago had adopted a way to deal with the lack… Continue reading