By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com Curiosity, we are warned, killed the cat, but the naysayers never tell you about the nine lives. There are other chances. In the University of Higher Education that is life, you can earn a… Continue reading

  September 11, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com In Germany, where the two world wars largely of that nation’s doing are old history to the present generation, there is still reminder of sadness in the town platz memorials… Continue reading

Sept. 5, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com This is crazy time in America, though if you subscribe to the thought that things happen for a reason, maybe we will learn why. But Labor Day is supposed to be… Continue reading

August 28, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com If you go up the Hudson River a bit from my area in Rockland County, N.Y., say about 30 miles to Beacon, there remains a quiet that has largely left the… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III We’ve got this Irish lass in the food program, you see, and wouldn’t you know that the gal from down Dublin way just has to have her tea first thing before the servin’ of the… Continue reading

August 15, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com On a Sunday morning when I had finished my own 6 o’clock coffee and was headed over the mountain to downtown Nyack, N.Y., I saw this fellow and his dog, the… Continue reading

August 15, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com On a Sunday morning when I had finished my own 6 o’clock coffee and was headed over the mountain to downtown Nyack, N.Y., I saw this fellow and his dog, the… Continue reading

August 8, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com     Now retired, I wrote hundreds of newspaper editorials endorsing candidates — local, state, national, These  days I often cast another in my mind to make an election choice. And… Continue reading

  By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com I am a self-discovered “painter” of limited ability, but there is satisfaction nonetheless, especially in a retirement where no longer are there the now-cherished deadlines of my newspaper past. It is more than… Continue reading

July 25, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com With all the sadness in the land over the deliberate targeting and killing of police officers as well as the harming of citizens by law enforcement, I will tell you of… Continue reading