August 4, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com Once, in season, there was a quiet in then country Rockland, a county north of New York City. Now suburban, parts urban-suburban, there is a continuing, deepening blur between Gotham and… Continue reading

WHERE IS ‘ANDY HARDY’? By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.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… Continue reading

July 21, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com This is a story about America. It begins in the Great Depression that would challenge the founders’ American Experiment of democratic rule in a republic; then goes to war in heavy… Continue reading

July 14, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com This painting – ‘Edward’s Bath’ – is a take on the original 1880s clawfoot tub that arrived as part of a second-story addition to the birthplace home of Edward Hopper, the… Continue reading

July 8, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com (First, for any possible reader out there, my online column, in the air since it morphed from newspaper print in 2006, disappeared for a week or so because the hosting site… Continue reading

June 30, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com Grandmothers leave a scent that even when you are, say 80, you recall it as if you were still 5. It is a ticket to nostalgia, yes, but more to a… Continue reading

June 23, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      Like so many of our grandfathers, mine was a blue-collar worker, one of millions who kept factories humming and so the rhythm of a nation. But he also was… Continue reading

June 16, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      Father’s Day brings celebration for the living but also for the memory of those who have passed. With the latter, your glasses now seem polished, the lenses sharp. You recollect… Continue reading

June 10, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com       When you are young, family history seems ancient. You are full of growth and vigor, the future beckoning, and you barely hear perhaps just every third word about… Continue reading

June 2, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com       Older folks like me have become our grandpas and grandmas in complaining that the “good, old days” are long gone, that things were always better back when. Well, … Continue reading