Sept. 5, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com This is crazy time in America, though if you subscribe to the thought that things happen for a reason, maybe we will learn why. But Labor Day is supposed to be… Continue reading

August 28, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com If you go up the Hudson River a bit from my area in Rockland County, N.Y., say about 30 miles to Beacon, there remains a quiet that has largely left the… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III We’ve got this Irish lass in the food program, you see, and wouldn’t you know that the gal from down Dublin way just has to have her tea first thing before the servin’ of the… Continue reading

August 15, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com On a Sunday morning when I had finished my own 6 o’clock coffee and was headed over the mountain to downtown Nyack, N.Y., I saw this fellow and his dog, the… Continue reading

August 15, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com On a Sunday morning when I had finished my own 6 o’clock coffee and was headed over the mountain to downtown Nyack, N.Y., I saw this fellow and his dog, the… Continue reading

August 8, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com     Now retired, I wrote hundreds of newspaper editorials endorsing candidates — local, state, national, These  days I often cast another in my mind to make an election choice. And… Continue reading

  By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com I am a self-discovered “painter” of limited ability, but there is satisfaction nonetheless, especially in a retirement where no longer are there the now-cherished deadlines of my newspaper past. It is more than… Continue reading

July 25, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com With all the sadness in the land over the deliberate targeting and killing of police officers as well as the harming of citizens by law enforcement, I will tell you of… Continue reading

July 18, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com Just before the pre-suburban explosion of the 1950s in my part of lower New York State, in a fruit orchard area fittingly off Cherry Lane, a young fellow, second grader, had… Continue reading

  July 11, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com Equal time for Hillary in an unequal presidential race, in a time of sad national inequality. The last mildly satirical column suggested The Donald doesn’t want the presidency, that he… Continue reading