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  • THE POETRY IN DRINKING TEA

    By Arthur H. Gunther III We’ve got this Irish lass in the food program, you see, and wouldn’t you know that the gal from down Dublin way just has to have her tea first thing before the servin’ of the… Continue reading

  • A MOMENT’S RESPITE

    August 15, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com On a Sunday morning when I had finished my own 6 o’clock coffee and was headed over the mountain to downtown Nyack, N.Y., I saw this fellow and his dog, the… Continue reading

  • A MOMENT’S RESPITE

    August 15, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com On a Sunday morning when I had finished my own 6 o’clock coffee and was headed over the mountain to downtown Nyack, N.Y., I saw this fellow and his dog, the… Continue reading

  • WAKING UP ON NOV. 8, 2016, NOV. 9, TOO …

    August 8, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com     Now retired, I wrote hundreds of newspaper editorials endorsing candidates — local, state, national, These  days I often cast another in my mind to make an election choice. And… Continue reading

  • CONNECTING THE DOTS

      By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com I am a self-discovered “painter” of limited ability, but there is satisfaction nonetheless, especially in a retirement where no longer are there the now-cherished deadlines of my newspaper past. It is more than… Continue reading

  • POLICE, CITIZENS: MUTUAL RESPECT

    July 25, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com With all the sadness in the land over the deliberate targeting and killing of police officers as well as the harming of citizens by law enforcement, I will tell you of… Continue reading

  • ‘PROGRESS’ AND THE OLD BOW SAW

    July 18, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com Just before the pre-suburban explosion of the 1950s in my part of lower New York State, in a fruit orchard area fittingly off Cherry Lane, a young fellow, second grader, had… Continue reading

  • FOCUS: OVAL OFFICE OR NATION?

      July 11, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com Equal time for Hillary in an unequal presidential race, in a time of sad national inequality. The last mildly satirical column suggested The Donald doesn’t want the presidency, that he… Continue reading

  • IT WAS ALL ABOUT THE RED HAT

    July 4, 2016, weekend By Arthur H. Gunther ahgunther@hotmail.com So, “The Donald” won the presidency, and now we all wear red baseball-style caps with  the imperial slogan (“Let’s Make America Great Again”), purchased exclusively through the Trump Store. Seriously, if… Continue reading

  • THE GIFTED BILL CUNNINGHAM

    June 27, 2016 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com Photographers, the inspired ones, the gifted, are observers who emphasize the essence of their subject, who snap the shutter as reporters of an expression, an event, an emotion, yes, but who,… Continue reading