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  • HISTORY LESSON

    February 13, 2017 By Arthur Henry Gunther III thecolumnrule.com Some say all Americans should declare they are Muslims, so that the re-energized prejudice, meanness and even hatred of 2017 can be nipped before there is horror. If enough Germans had… Continue reading

  • TEA AND SIMPLICITY

    February 7, 2017 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com Tea may be for reading leaves, but there is more to the brew. There are reasons why the Irish, the English, the Chinese, Indians and those of so many cultures not… Continue reading

  • VIEW FROM THE COUCH

      January 30, 2017 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com Couches are for more than potatoes, of course, though in my working years it seemed I never tarried long enough on one before falling asleep. These days a comfy sofa… Continue reading

  • ON A SUPERMARKET LINE …

    January 22, 2017 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com I  do not know at which point you realize there is less road in front of you than behind, but for me it came on the supermarket line just the other… Continue reading

  • Modern-day Königssee

      January 16, 2016   By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com The first photograph above this column is a 2016 shot I took of the Austrian Alps from the Königssee, Germany’s third deepest lake and with water so clear that… Continue reading

  • AN AMERICAN MOMENT

    January 9, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com NYACK, N.Y. — One of the givens of a Hudson River village like this is that in snow it is particularly beautiful, especially with lights on the water. But, as with… Continue reading

  • ‘THE IRREVERENT’ ARE FEWER

    January 2, 2017 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com “The Front Page,” a reverent bow to the once more-irreverent news profession, written by Nyackers Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur and recently revived on Broadway, could have been staged in the… Continue reading

  • ‘SEWING A FUTURE…’

      December 26, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com Rita-Eileen Glynn Smith, a former Rockland County, N.Y., resident, notes on Facebook that she owns her great aunt’s Singer sewing machine, complete with accessories and the equally famous oil can.… Continue reading

  • A WALT WHITMAN CHRISTMAS

    My son, Arthur Henry Gunther IV, inhabits this space each holiday season. Here is his 2016 story.   By Arthur Henry Gunther IV ​     It had been a strange year. One of those years where cynics seemed to… Continue reading

  • ROSE MARIE WAS IN CHARGE

      December 12, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com It was not surprising that my childhood friend, Rose Marie Strippoli, appeared calm in    announcing via Facebook that her beloved cat, Maggie, had passed after 18.5 years. I recall… Continue reading