Updated electrical code  can prevent fatal fires April 9, 2023  By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      Remember your mom’s warning not to stick paper clips in electrical outlets? Saved lives. Today it seems some, hopefully few, in government… Continue reading

April 2, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com The daily birth of a newspaper is a wondrous thing, with news, commentary, photographs, the who, what, where, when, why and how of information light and heavy and everywhere in between.… Continue reading

March 26, 2023  By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      In a world of super haba-daba lattes, designer donuts at $4.50 and your name written on the coffee container that you must pick up at another counter, it was… Continue reading

March 19, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      There is indisputable evidence that despite each older generation claiming  the young are going to hell in a hand basket, the truth is otherwise. Always has been.      … Continue reading

March 12, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com In a very simple time when things were still complicated for grown-ups of course, country children of the 1940s and ’50s found diversion in rustling through the woods, playing hide and… Continue reading

‘OFF THE SOUTH MOUNTAIN’/gunther March 6, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      On an early morning run in the Northeast, about 6, before the suburban/urban beings start their engines and rev up for the endless trips to… Continue reading

February 26, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      The daughter of a Rockland Journal-News colleague from long ago when the community newspaper still existed at 53 Hudson Ave., Nyack, N.Y., recently sent me an unidentified photograph of… Continue reading

February 19, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      There was always anticipation in the 1939 Dodge my father drove to the ferries at Weehawken to begin our rare visits to New York City. A country boy living… Continue reading

February 12, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      There is mystery in Gotham, the generic word for any city, ancient or modern. Tall buildings dwarfing others, alleyways in daylight darkness, corners in street lamp shadow, anonymous individuals… Continue reading

February 5, 2023 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      James Joyce, the writer who had to leave Dublin to narrate its soul, is remembered for more than classic works like “Dubliner” and Ulysses.” His story and character quotes… Continue reading