November 23, 2020 By Arthur H. Gunther III (contact/comment: ahgunther@hotmail.com)      “Gimme rewrite!”      Once, there was a “Front Page” in every community, newspapers and characters straight out of the famous 1928 play/movie by Charles MacArthur and Ben… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      Many painters don’t title their works or provide only cryptic ones, perhaps  because they do not know what the pieces say, preferring that their “language” speak for itself. Maybe even tell the… Continue reading

November 10, 2020 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      Joe is in, so is Kamala. Next, it’s gotta be the people.      Kamala Harris cannot have her office in Washington, where the K-Street lobbyists and other special… Continue reading

      November 2, 2020 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      It should be un-American to hate, to be a bigot, to let fear and want from loss of job and community change to bully others from… Continue reading

Hugh Bonner’s funeral, St. Patrick’s Day, 1908, NYC October 26, 2020   By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      I am partly of Bonner heritage, Irish through my grandmother Mary and also Scot as the family was Bonnar there… Continue reading

October 19, 2020 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      In another century, it seems, there were conversations about everything yet nothing of great import. Those two were not going to solve the world’s problems nor were they going… Continue reading

October 12, 2020 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      There is a road on the South Mountain, a winding, hilly journey that has long defined the lives of farmers and artists. It is the plan of the gods… Continue reading

  October 5, 2020 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com Curiosity, we are warned, killed the cat, but the naysayers never tell you about the nine lives. Curiosity was a welcome trait for Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein, who thought out… Continue reading

September 28, 2020 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com The “American Dream” has always been “just white,” and until the nation admits that, some of those who have arrived will keep people of color and immigrants from success. And some… Continue reading

Acrylic on canvas/gunther   September 21, 2020 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      There is at least a single incomplete umbrella in anyone’s life, no pole leading to canopy, a metaphor for incompleteness, perhaps something unfinished or just… Continue reading