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

April 27, 2020 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      Greed is the virus that never goes away, in good times, in bad ones. It is exploitive, growing exponentially with pandemic illness, for example, its handlers quickly looking to… Continue reading

‘SOCIAL DISTANCING’/photograph/gunther By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      “Social distancing” is not new. As kids, we were forced to go to such lengths if we had older siblings who walked faster and who ignored us anyway. Couples always… Continue reading

April 13, 2020 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com      In this staying-at-home time, simplicity seems to have re-appeared, just as cleaner air nationwide is reported, that due to decreased vehicle movement. Not using the car as much, not… Continue reading