September 8, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com The “forgotten” is the usual theme in this essay space – the ordinary gal or fellow, the backbone of our republic, the ones who largely work blue-collar, and in a look… Continue reading

September 1, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com “Life is the flash of a firefly in the night,” said Chief Crowfoot of the Siksika Nation in the later 1800s. Life truly is a glimpse, whether it be a red… Continue reading

August 26, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com For more than 25 years I was a writer of newspaper editorials for the former Rockland Journal-News, a daily community sheet that began in 1889. It was a gift to do… Continue reading

August 18, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com    Blauvelt to West Nyack, N.Y. — Along the Western Highway, simply named centuries ago because so few roads existed that there was no need to use developers’ favored children’s monikers,… Continue reading

Aug. 11, 2024 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com Maybe the world seems so screwed up because too few of us have a box of old screws. Nails too. Or because we don’t visit them often enough. Back in pre-credit… Continue reading

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