June 5, 2017 By Arthur H. Gunther III thecolumnrule.com If you could see a person’s emotions, thoughts, likes and dislikes, even the soul, you would be looking at an abstract painting, for the elements of each reveal existence. Line, form… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.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 that we could hear them. What would… Continue reading

“On a Hill,” acrylic on wood May 22, 2017 By Arthur Henry Gunther III thecolumnrule.com Every child, kid, needs a place to get lost. You can’t always be with parents or siblings or even friends. There has to be your… Continue reading

“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