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  • EDWARD HOPPER AND ‘PAINTING’

    Completed bedroom. Note the window light. By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com      82 North Broadway, Nyack, N.Y. — When you paint in a great artist’s childhood bedroom, in space where the Hudson light seems a direct path from Heaven,… Continue reading

  • SOUP & HUMANITY

      By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com Here’s a story. A very human story. One that might remind you of your mom. And a cold day. And simple soup. And a complex world. We have been having old-fashioned winter in… Continue reading

  • OF A FRIENDSHIP

    By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com Sometimes a person comes along as if the moment were a conversation with a plane passenger whom you’ve just met and who will soon move on to her own destination. Yet, however short the… Continue reading

  • BOREDOM IS GOOD, KIDS

    By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com Being bored is good, kids. Skip the video game, the phone, the computer and all the scheduled activity. Take a walk, sit under a tree, in a library corner. Climb a branch (safely), go down… Continue reading

  • MORE THAN A ‘BLIZZARD’

    By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com NEW YORK STATE — As this being written, a “blizzard” is clipping its way toward my section of the nation. “Blizzard” is a big word here, quite unlike in some other states. The new… Continue reading

  • IT’S THE MIDDLE CLASS

    By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com It’s all about the middle class, and it’s not a selfish thing. The people in the middle historically prove to be the rescuers of both the lower and upper classes, the lower because when… Continue reading

  • ‘FIRST LADY OF NYACK,’ ALWAYS

    By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com NYACK, N.Y. — Helen Hayes, once and for a long time the “First Lady of the American Theatre,” soon will no longer have her distinguished name on Broadway. The Helen Hayes Theatre on West… Continue reading

  • REASSURANCE IN AN OLD DINER

    By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com Small diners in my part of the world in lower New York State a few decades back were known for tasty, homemade food served by owners and their staff who seemed like family, especially for… Continue reading

  • BOOK: ‘STOP AT THE RED APPLE’

      Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com        Some of us go home again by passing the house we lived in as a child. Others visit the old neighborhood. For Elaine Freed Lindenblatt, it’s a restaurant, or at least… Continue reading

  • HERE IT WAS DECEMBER …

    For some years, my son Arthur IV, a writer too, offered a holiday story published in place of my former newspaper column. That tradition now continues on the web.  – Arthur H. Gunther III   By ARTHUR H. GUNTHER IV… Continue reading