January 24, 2022 By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com      The newspaper brotherhood is losing its working members, and that will make orphans of all who depend on information delivery as a public trust. Papers are dying, shot… Continue reading

January 17, 2022 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@yahoo.com There used to be a bakery in Nyack, N.Y., name of Luleich. It was the typical but oh-so-welcome village fixture. Sometimes communities had more than one, German-style, Italian-style, etc. Depended… Continue reading

January 10, 2022 By Arthur H.Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@yahoo.com There is a tree on the South Mountain in my Hudson Valley, N.Y., area that has looked at me since I was a young fellow. And that is a long time… Continue reading

‘FALL’/gunther October 25, 2021 By Arthur H. Gunther IIII thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@yahoo.com      Autumn arrives as a state of mind, prompted by the foliage change to wonderful hues or by memories of fall’s past that tug at your senses.    … Continue reading

October 18, 2021 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@yahoo.com About this time of year comes the memory of the apple smell, sweet fragrance that for me opened the door a bit to Heaven when I was a child at… Continue reading

October 11, 2021 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@yahoo.com      There is the unordinary cat, thank heavens.      Remember kindergarten? Teachers encouraging individuality. Playing games together but drawing separately. Come the next grade and the ones afterward… Continue reading

October 2, 2021 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@yahoo.com      The cadence of life is the music we exist by, live by, endure by, thrill by, emote by, give birth by, laugh and cry by, die by. It… Continue reading

September 27, 2021 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@yahoo.com Once in my parts, a section of the Northeast where as yet not all the woods have been bulldozed by “Progress,” we measured fall’s coming by morning humidity on the… Continue reading

September 20, 2021 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@hotmail.com If true readers were the only people newspapers and Internet information providers had to be concerned about, there would be little reason for this essay. They are hooked on the… Continue reading

Twin Towers steel at Haverstraw Bay Park, Rockland County, N.Y./gunther photo   September 11, 2021 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com ahgunther@yahoo.com      There is rhythm to our lives, and when it is seriously interrupted, the beat changes forever.… Continue reading