By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com Even if people once in our lives have left us or we them, or if circumstances — changes — took them away, there is certainty in familiar shadows, a feeling more than apparition actually, that… Continue reading

May 1, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com Americans share a “document of intent” with our British cousins. For our former royal mother country, it is the 1215 Magna Carta, which actually was reissued, modified and was more relevant… Continue reading

April 24, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com No man, no woman, no child is free as their god intended if their history, their inheritance, their rightful destiny are lassoed by another master. That was the Irish in the… Continue reading

April 18, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com Having just returned from a family trip to Germany and Austria, and immediately thrown as an American into the country I cherish, the horizon has been expanded that I cannot fully… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III Ahgunther@hotmail.com MUNICH, Germany — The fifth-generation descendant of a Prussian family that had an umlaut over the “u” in Gunther has returned to a sort of fatherland. I arrived here Friday to visit my son… Continue reading

  By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com All periods in history have their idiosyncrasies, stylized to the individual, the mojo of the moment, the then-current trends, the arts, the music, whether there are wars or economic difficulties or actual progress… Continue reading

  March 28, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com Why is “The Donald” popular? This one sentence tells us why. When the media, and that includes some of my colleagues, enables a showman, a magician, an entertainer, then the… Continue reading

March 21, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com They buried Risa last week, a woman of just 57 years, 30 or so homeless. A strongly independent individual, her cancer came quickly and thoroughly, but it could not easily quiet… Continue reading

‘ROOM AT THE TABLE’ March 14, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com One good-natured joke as we approach St. Patrick’s Day is that if you want to read in Heaven, saddle up to an Irishman or woman for the… Continue reading

March 7, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com In my youth, in Spring Valley, N.Y., we school kids were all Irish on St. Patrick’s Day, and at Christmas time, we sang songs for both the holiday and Hanukkah. But… Continue reading