“APPLES AT SINK” May 15, 2017 By Arthur Henry Gunther III thecolumnrule.com In the Rockland County, N.Y. of my late 1940s into 1950s youth, taking the same, long bicycle ride twice but a month apart often meant witnessing a disappearing… Continue reading

May 8, 2017 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com My grandmother was used to seeing road-worn men in old but once-pressed suit jackets at her back porch in Spring Valley, N.Y. They were there during the 1930s Great Depression, hobos… Continue reading

May 1, 2017 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com I needed a large circular template for a painting, and since neccesity is the mother of invention, I glanced across the basement and saw an old 33 rpm vinyl record, and… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III Thecolumnrule.com I live in Rockland County, N.Y., a semi-rural land when I was young but now a New York City suburb that is graying with older housing stock, demands for more urban-like density, rising infrastructure… Continue reading

April 16, 2017 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com When my son Arthur IV bought his small Upper Nyack, N.Y.,  house from Leroy Buckout, the owner explained that he long ago had adopted a way to deal with the lack… Continue reading

April 10, 2017 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com Some time ago, at a table of friends and family through marriage, the talk was of newspapers — media in general, actually — and how you “can’t believe what you read,… Continue reading

April 3, 2017 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com In Nyack, N.Y., just a few hundred yards from the great historic river named the Hudson, the shores of which will soon be joined by two new bridges to replace one… Continue reading

March 27, 2017 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com When we come across the Jacob Riis photographs of late-1800’s lower New York City poverty, in his book “How the Other Half Lives,” most of us feel sad yet grateful for… Continue reading

  March 20, 2017 By Arthur Henry Gunther III thecolumnrule.com One of the benefits of social media (and there are significant downsides) is that much information is presented, all of it requiring prudent review. But so deep are the vaults… Continue reading

March 13, 2017 By Arthur Henry Gunther III thecolumnrule.com My week just past had two “JR” moments, and the thought of that had me smiling. In a time when simplicity and common sense, just the basic black and white of things,… Continue reading