November 5, 2023 Gunther photo By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      There is the birth house of a famous American painter nestled in the Hudson River village of Nyack, N.Y., above Gotham but not of that city although… Continue reading

October 29, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      There is – can be – a moment lying in an old iron bed of the very early 1900s, mattress high off the wooden floor, fall morning after a… Continue reading

October 22, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      Back in ancient history but certainly relevant to today’s school kids, at least half the morning instruction in the lower/middle grades was given less attention because all you could… Continue reading

October 15, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      My brother and I, raised in the 1940s-’50s country village of Spring Valley, N.Y., and our father before that in the 1930s, had many, sometimes mostly, Jewish classmates and… Continue reading

October 7, 2023   By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      Family genealogy collections and books are cherished histories that connect the dots in ancestral lines and prove reference for future generations. We should know where we come from.… Continue reading

October 2, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      If we are fortunate, and not all are, we are anchored by early, good memories that literally define life, provide confident reference to the past and offer reassurance with… Continue reading

‘HER’/gunther (acrylic on linen) September 24, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      Form is the substance of life, whether it be our homes, places we visit, the food we eat, the beauty we admire and that which… Continue reading

‘TWO WINDOWS’/gunther September 17, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      In a day’s time, you can sit in a room in thought that is idling like your 1955 English Ford in neutral, the constant turn of the… Continue reading

September 11, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      There is rhythm to our lives, and when it is seriously interrupted, the beat rarely returns to the same music.  And, so it was with September 11, 2001.   … Continue reading

Sept. 5, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther IIIthecolumnrule.com      This is crazy time in America in ways political, economic, health-wise, socially, though if you subscribe to the thought that things happen for a reason, maybe eventually we will learn… Continue reading