Latest Posts

  • ‘SNOW’ FOR CHRISTMAS

        This is my son’s annual holiday story, which he has written in this space for many seasons. By Arthur H. Gunther IV clausland@yahoo.com There was too much science.  Too much math.  There was too much thinking in absolutes and… Continue reading

  • THE PASSING SCENE

    December 14, 2015 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com There is comparison to be made to the fellow or gal standing in the corner of the dining room surfing a smartphone and a man/woman the same age sitting in a… Continue reading

  • RE-ASSERT THE ‘FOUR FREEDOMS’

      By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com POSTED on Dec. 6 for Dec. 7 — No American can go through this day without recalling Pearl Harbor, because it is etched on our timeline. Most modern-day citizens have no recollection  of… Continue reading

  • THE POWER OF SCENT

    November 30, 2015 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com Coffee under brew can define your day, or at least open the door. Universally, whether you enjoy java or not, a whiff reminds you of mornings as a child, or the… Continue reading

  • ‘DO NOT LET FEAR WIN’

    November 23, 2015 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com The perch that I sit on — and most of my readers, too — is in the lower part of New York State, in the geographically smallest county — Rockland —… Continue reading

  • DEJA-VU AT THE EDWARD HOPPER HOUSE

    November 16, 2015 By Arthur H. Gunther III It had to be pre-World War I when the Edward Hopper House in Nyack, N.Y., still had no hot water, relying instead on a rubber tube connected from a gas jet in… Continue reading

  • A ‘SECRETARY OF THE PEOPLE’

    By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com Increasingly, special interests can buy an election, influencing sitting officeholders and deeply directing U.S. domestic and foreign policy. Investigative media that once would have looked at such a growing web of influence has shrunk in… Continue reading

  • TRUE NATIONAL BIRTHDAY

      November 2, 2015 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 3, not a birthday “present” this year, but it has been often enough. In earlier times at a newspaper, I worked most birthday/election events. No… Continue reading

  • WHO WILL TELL US?

    October 26, 2015 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com The brotherhood is losing its working members, and that will make orphans of all who depend on information delivery as a public trust. Newspapers are dying, shot by a lessened public… Continue reading

  • AL WITT, GENUINE FELLOW

      Oct. 19, 2015 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com Lost a good friend a few days ago who was also my first boss on a full-time job at the original Journal-News, a daily in Rockland County, N.Y. As with… Continue reading