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SOUP & HUMANITY
By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com Here’s a story. A very human story. One that might remind you of your mom. And a cold day. And simple soup. And a complex world. We have been having old-fashioned winter in… Continue reading
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OF A FRIENDSHIP
By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com Sometimes a person comes along as if the moment were a conversation with a plane passenger whom you’ve just met and who will soon move on to her own destination. Yet, however short the… Continue reading
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BOREDOM IS GOOD, KIDS
By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com Being bored is good, kids. Skip the video game, the phone, the computer and all the scheduled activity. Take a walk, sit under a tree, in a library corner. Climb a branch (safely), go down… Continue reading
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MORE THAN A ‘BLIZZARD’
By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com NEW YORK STATE — As this being written, a “blizzard” is clipping its way toward my section of the nation. “Blizzard” is a big word here, quite unlike in some other states. The new… Continue reading
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IT’S THE MIDDLE CLASS
By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com It’s all about the middle class, and it’s not a selfish thing. The people in the middle historically prove to be the rescuers of both the lower and upper classes, the lower because when… Continue reading
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‘FIRST LADY OF NYACK,’ ALWAYS
By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com NYACK, N.Y. — Helen Hayes, once and for a long time the “First Lady of the American Theatre,” soon will no longer have her distinguished name on Broadway. The Helen Hayes Theatre on West… Continue reading
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REASSURANCE IN AN OLD DINER
By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com Small diners in my part of the world in lower New York State a few decades back were known for tasty, homemade food served by owners and their staff who seemed like family, especially for… Continue reading
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BOOK: ‘STOP AT THE RED APPLE’
Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com Some of us go home again by passing the house we lived in as a child. Others visit the old neighborhood. For Elaine Freed Lindenblatt, it’s a restaurant, or at least… Continue reading
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HERE IT WAS DECEMBER …
For some years, my son Arthur IV, a writer too, offered a holiday story published in place of my former newspaper column. That tradition now continues on the web. – Arthur H. Gunther III By ARTHUR H. GUNTHER IV… Continue reading
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WHAT PRICE DEMOCRACY?
By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com Just months after World War II ended in August 1945, the Nuremberg trials began with impressive agreement among four of the Allied nations that those who commit atrocities in war are to be held… Continue reading