COLOR IN THE HILLS, a view off Bear Mountain (Arthur H. Gunther photo) February 3, 2014      Bear Mountain, N.Y. — You would have to be close — about 48 or so miles from New York City — to hear,… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com A recent New York Times edition unintentionally offered proof of the growing American economic contrast in this topsy-turvy world of post-recession stall. On its Opinion Page January 6 was a third-position editorial, “Republican Disdain… Continue reading

By Arthur H. GuntherIII ahgunther@hotmail.com My Colorado pal writes on a subject that many of us recall — clothes drying not in a metal machine but on a line. Elaine Muise Calabro, once of Rockland County, N.Y., says she “preferred… Continue reading

By Arthur H.Gunther III “LEAN ON ME,” said the healthy pine to its brother, the roots of which were torn from the earth during Superstorm Sandy in fall 2012.   In a metaphor, how many Rockland County, N.Y., residents required help… Continue reading

For some years, my son Arthur IV, a writer too, offered a holiday story published in this space. Reprinted here is his Dec. 24, 2007, piece.   Franklin was a man of routine. Perhaps such a person had become an… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com Nanuet, N.Y. — There’s a shopping center here that’s never been without parking vehicles since it was built in the later 1950s, a remarkable thing because such strips in suburbia — actually almost all… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III (ahgunther@hotmail.com) In this time of holiday parties, we went to see Jerry Donnellan at his West Nyack, N.Y., home. For decades now, he has been the veterans guru for Rockland County, and Jerry’s daily, weekend… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com NYACK, N.Y. — In the birthplace village of Edward Hopper, the famed American realist artist (1882-1967), it is a simple thing to note the early morning Hudson River light that he bottled and used… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com Nearing the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, so much reflection has already been written, some by younger writers who were not alive to absorb the year 1963, the 1950s and God,… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com On the 11th day of the 11th month at the 11th hour in 1918, World War I mostly ended with the hope that such a dramatic finish would cement the promise: “The war to… Continue reading