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  • ‘AUTUMN IN NEW YORK’

      By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com Fall — autumn sounds better — is when you are supposed to let go of summer, even if you dread winter’s coming and want to hold onto the beach, fire pits and the light as… Continue reading

  • IGNORING OUR DIGNITY

    Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com I won’t vote for Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the popular New Yorker seeking re-election. Nor would I for President Obama, if he were able to run anew, though I supported him twice. And I will be… Continue reading

  • STILL, A BRIDGE TOO FAR

    By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com HUDSON RIVER, N.Y. — This mighty waterway, not a western route to Asia through the Northwest Passage as Hendrick Hudson hoped it would be in 1609, but to the great port of Albany and so… Continue reading

  • ROCKS IN YOUR HEAD

    By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com When you are walking with young children, in this case one 7, another 5, and you have to pass the time of day as the clock seems to run awfully slow, you have to… Continue reading

  • THE TWO-WAY STREET

    By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com   Police exist by the people’s command, and only by that direction,  because we cannot secure ourselves. Theirs is a dangerous, usually thankless job, and the officer’s whole being is often in the sewer… Continue reading

  • THE GUNS OF AUGUST AND BEYOND

      Flanders fields, before the blood (painting by author)   By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com       If, at the 11th hour of the 11th day in the 11th month of each year, from 1918 on when “The War to End… Continue reading

  • REPORTING ON HUMANITY

    By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com     Much progress in humanity, though it is often one step ahead, two back, comes from symbolism, such as the iconic nature of photographs that pull at our conscience and tell us, “We… Continue reading

  • A DOOR KNOB, LAST DAY

    By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com I had a friend named Ginny, who was a fellow trustee at the Edward Hopper House Art Center in Nyack, N.Y. A very effective communicator, she was particular about doing things right, to a… Continue reading

  • OFFSPRING, ON THEIR BIRTHDAYS

    By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com   How do you thank a son, who at 43 this very day, July 14,  is light years ahead of who you were at that time? How do you speak, father to offspring, beyond… Continue reading

  • WHERE IS ‘ANDY HARDY’?

      By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com   ANY TOWN, USA — Ironically, as Americans fatten up through fast food and lifestyle, it is also slimming down to overly thin in its public look, in its parks and on its… Continue reading