October 9, 2017 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com NYACK, N.Y. — It was easy, at this fund-raiser aiming to protect and restore a 200-year-old village house, to imagine social gatherings in the 1930s-‘50s at which Helen Hayes and Charles… Continue reading

https://thecolumnrule.com/blog/2017/10/01/the-fall-season/ October1-2, 2017 By Arthur Henry Gunther III thecolumnrule.com Once, so very long ago, almost in another age but I know it still must relate to the accumulation of living, just part of me, you see, gave someone a small… Continue reading

“Talking Skyscrapers”   September 25, 2017 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com NEW YORK, N.Y. — The area where I live is just north of this famous, at times infamous, metropolis, enough distance in my youth to have enjoyed a… Continue reading

September 18, 2017 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com NYACK, N.Y. — This Hudson River village has a park with a usual name, Memorial, just like the one I played in as a kid in another community, though this also… Continue reading

  Der Einfluss,’ acrylic on wood panel. September 4, 2017 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com In German, “Einfluss” means “influence,” and so that is how a recent painting gained its name. I was intrigued by a photograph taken by… Continue reading

August 28, 2017 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com Received a chatty, welcome letter from a special friend whom I have not seen since 2006, and before that the early 1990s, and before that 1981 and 1966. Might seem odd… Continue reading

August 21, 2017 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com NYACK, N.Y. — As a former trustee and now volunteer at the Edward Hopper House Art Center in the birthplace home of the famed American realist painter, I have heard noises… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com If, at the 11th hour of the 11th day in the 11th month of each year, from 1918 on when “The War to End All Wars” was over, you would begin to toll a bell… Continue reading

August 7, 2017 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com One of the givens in growing up in the semi-rural county of Rockland, New York, in my 1950s years was that we were surrounded by diversity. It had always been that… Continue reading

July 31, 2017 By Arthur Henry Gunther III Not all eulogies are truthfully written, because there is a natural spin to comments made about the departed, much like the wailing of a relative or two at a wake for someone… Continue reading