July 4, 2016, weekend By Arthur H. Gunther ahgunther@hotmail.com So, “The Donald” won the presidency, and now we all wear red baseball-style caps with  the imperial slogan (“Let’s Make America Great Again”), purchased exclusively through the Trump Store. Seriously, if… Continue reading

June 27, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com Photographers, the inspired ones, the gifted, are observers who emphasize the essence of their subject, who snap the shutter as reporters of an expression, an event, an emotion, yes, but who,… Continue reading

June 19, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com Father’s Day is a time for special reverence, especially when your dad is gone. It’s almost easier then, sad to say, because you don’t readily recall the difficult moments. All children… Continue reading

June 13, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com The terrible news that a gunman walked into a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., and destroyed 50 people, leaving 53 others hospitalized in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history has… Continue reading

June 6, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com NÜRNBERG, Germany — This once-again beautiful city in the center of Deutschland, removed for more than 70 years now from World War II bombing and almost complete devastation, is both typically… Continue reading

May 30, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com When my double Great-Grandfather Robert Wilhelm Guenther left Appomattox and then his mustering-out as a Union soldier in June 1865, he accomplished the greatest feat of his four-year “career” — he… Continue reading

May 23, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com A shiny new hotel has opened in Nyack, N.Y., a Hudson River village that for decades was the work home of newspaper stiffs like me. I hope The Time Nyack enjoys… Continue reading

May 16, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com Weiden, Germany — On a recent walk here in the centuries-old farmland of this Bavarian region while visiting family, I came upon a war memorial, a bit worn and not as… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com Even if people once in our lives have left us or we them, or if circumstances — changes — took them away, there is certainty in familiar shadows, a feeling more than apparition actually, that… Continue reading

May 1, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com Americans share a “document of intent” with our British cousins. For our former royal mother country, it is the 1215 Magna Carta, which actually was reissued, modified and was more relevant… Continue reading