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

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com New York City — With the April Boston Marathon bombings still pulling at the heartstrings of runners everywhere, some 45,000 of them rallied Sunday in indomitable spirit in the resumed New York City event,… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com Whether it be global warming, the Tea Party, the Democrats, cranky Mother Nature or nothing at all, fall color seems to be coming later every year. We were in old industrial-town North Adams, Mass.,… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com Spring Valley, N.Y. —  The time: 2:55 a.m. Place: parking lot of the United Church. Reason: Tuesday start for the Rockland (County) Interfaith Breakfast Program. What’s unusual: a special whiff of fallen leaves returning… Continue reading