By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@yahoo.com      If you are fortunate before you grow up, you’ll get to spend a few years with a patient, somewhat quiet, a bit odd grandfather like I did, who had a knack… Continue reading

July 17, 2022 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@yahoo.com Doors have a way of fitting in, just like long-gone Uncle Jack in town for a comfy visit. He gets that way fast. Or people who initially stand out and… Continue reading

July 10, 2022 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@yahoo.com      ANY VILLAGE, USA — Times change, people do, communities certainly. “You can’t go home again,” literally, as Thomas Wolfe put it. Yet, the pull of one’s childhood place… Continue reading

July 4, 2022 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@yahoo.com       We eat picnic food, watch fireworks and chill out on July 4th in the national birthday celebration recognizing Independence Day, our 1776 Declaration of Independence from Great… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@yahoo.com      Not all essay writing comes in full paragraphs – sometimes the thought begins in shorthand. Perhaps a form of poetry, or if not to the expected quality level of such, a… Continue reading

June 19, 2022 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@yahoo.com      You don’t have to dig into eons past to see history.      A road beautification project in Pearl River, N.Y., a hamlet in the Gotham suburbs but… Continue reading

June 12, 2022 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@yahoo.com      When in the course of human events these United States, still in experimentation, requires a reset, it is necessary to have a big do – a block party,… Continue reading

June 5, 2022 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      NYACK, N.Y. — Edward Hopper, famed painter of realism whose “Nighthawks” and other works articulate American solitude as mood, thought and destiny,  is ever-present in this village of his… Continue reading

May 30, 2022 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@yahoo.com       No Memorial Day, USA or elsewhere, is without heartfelt words and tribute, parades, wreaths, re-mourning. What is always missing, though, are the voices of the fallen. Would… Continue reading

May 22, 2022 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@yahoo.com      We live in an age of power tools, big-box home improvement centers and a throwaway culture, so when a leaning fence gate needs fixing, the modus operandi may… Continue reading