July 5, 2020 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      Back when, and “when” is whenever you or I hold a memory about a place or someone or thing, there was a country road in Pomona, N.Y.,  named McNamara,… Continue reading

June 29, 2020 “THE NARROW LAND,” a novel about artist Edward Hopper but really about us all By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      In this moment — perhaps age — of revisiting our past, heralded national leaders, authors,… Continue reading

Fathers Day 2020  By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com     As my Dad lie dying in hospital and I on my way to visit his presence for the last time he could speak, not yet in the induced coma… Continue reading

One room, two very different windows, each of individual color and particular perspective. But they co-exist./gunther painting       ‘TWO WINDOWS’/gunther By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      This virus stay-at-home has brought back childhood memories of being… Continue reading

June 8, 2020 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      I will tell you a story or two of neighborhood police back in my older days in Spring Valley, N.Y., a then countrified community north of Gotham. This was… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      Decades ago, Rockland County, N.Y., faced an interracial situation that I covered as a Journal-News photographer. I offer my account and image of that July 4, 1966, event in Suffern to report… Continue reading

/acrylic-wood/gunther Memorial Day weekend 2020 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com Noting Memorial Day and the many thousands of Americans and non-citizens who have sacrificed their lives in war; bowing in humility to the dying and dead — the champions… Continue reading

May 18, 2020 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      One of the enforced benefits of this time of the virus — sitting at home — can be good for you even though you might want to be out… Continue reading

May 11, 2020 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      One of the things about staying home during the time of virus is that you have to escape. The walls can move in a bit, and suddenly the back… Continue reading

May 4, 2020 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      There had been many quick jumps across my childhood street in Hillcrest, N.Y., to see my friend Matthew but also to sit down with his grandmother, Molly Weissman. This… Continue reading