By Arthur H.Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com “Every Hero Has a Story” is the theme of this year’s Summer Reading Club in my area, part of the national Collaborative Summer Library Program. It encourages students to continue reading over school vacation, whether… Continue reading

July 27, 2015 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com There comes a day when you see a certain face on a relative, friend or former acquaintance, and you realize time has passed, that age has added lines, that days of… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com   The painter who touches you has already made that same journey inward, for he/she takes a picture of part of the artist’s soul and renders it in form, line, color, perspective. If you… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com Fruit in season is like long-sought-after love that suddenly makes connection. The heavens appear, but as in many a novel and short story, consumption does you in, spoils you for the ordinary. You can… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III Back when, and “when” is whenever you or I hold a memory about a place or someone or thing, there was a country road in Pomona named McNamara, and though the signs still proclaim it,… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com It was at the corner of Marion Street and First Avenue in an American town that the echoes of the past not only filled the ears with a delightful, peaceful sound but the fragrance of… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com Today’s social media, like Facebook, showcases much me-ism and egotism, but it can also be telling about someone’s character. And that character, in turn, is telling about the individual’s beliefs. It brings respect, even conversion.… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com When one of my sons bought his 1929 home, a smallish but well-crafted, ideally situated place, he and his wife noticed the paucity of closets, not uncommon in houses before the 1930s. Wardrobes, often… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com When you are a newspaper photographer, you are like a stage or film director – you set up shots, scenes that capture, it is hoped, the essence, the nut, the who, what, when, where,… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III I am not a teacher, but I know a good argument about education. And the children are losing it. I live in New York where, as in many other states, the focus is on testing… Continue reading