By Arthur H Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com The date on this piece tells it all — it is Columbus Day, a national holiday in the good, old US of A, but not for everyone. As I write this shortly after… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com There’s a smallish village near me, and, of course, there is one by you, anywhere, that has its charm. You may have to look beyond the new, in this case the paint, restored Victorian… Continue reading

    By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com “Less is More” is often a clever marketing move to make you believe the downsized product you pay dearly for actually delivers as promised. The real truth may be that the deal is a… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com Envelopes — legal sized or not — may be an anachronism in the digital world, in this morphing time of Tweets, Facebook posts and cell phone text shorthand, but using them can prompt memories… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com When I was 21 and had not yet set the sail of life’s direction, perhaps even adrift for a time in a dinghy in calm waters but with rapids in view, I took a… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@hotmail.com EVERYWHERE, USA — How is labor supposed to rest on this noted day when there are so few middle-class jobs? The many unemployed already have nothing but downtime. How did a rich, progressive,… Continue reading

ahgunther@yahoo.com Heroes of the Holocaust are not only those who died in that great inhumanity. Survivors who have gone on to endure  thousands of nights in recalled nightmare have articulated against the dark side and championed what is good in… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com A day or so before my brother Craig and I recently closed on our late parents’ house, I said goodbye to a place that was never my childhood home, never one of infant, toddler,… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com In the youth that was mine and so many others in 1950s not-yet-suburbia in Rockland County, N.Y., there would be occasional trips to New York City, about 24 miles southeast. That could be an… Continue reading

Spring Valley, N.Y.  —  Over on Alturas Road, between Cole and Summit avenues, on the hill once called Red Brick, many deep inches of asphalt are the burial cover of a long-gone era, one that saw much less traffic on… Continue reading