By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com When one of my sons bought his 1929 home, a smallish but well-crafted, ideally situated place, he and his wife noticed the paucity of closets, not uncommon in houses before the 1930s. Wardrobes, often… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com When you are a newspaper photographer, you are like a stage or film director – you set up shots, scenes that capture, it is hoped, the essence, the nut, the who, what, when, where,… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III I am not a teacher, but I know a good argument about education. And the children are losing it. I live in New York where, as in many other states, the focus is on testing… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com PIERMONT, N.Y. — This Hudson River village just north of New York City is where the Normandy Day landings were staged, literally. It was from the pier here that U.S. Army soldiers and their… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com NYACK, N.Y. — This village a bit north of New York City and west of the Hudson River has long been recognized as part of the famous “Underground Railroad,” the network of secret trails,… Continue reading

  By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com On a fine spring day — and we have had just a few of those in the Northeast this year since our old-fashioned, cold, snowy winter forced us into a long season of… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com It used to be that the smog from coal furnaces and smokestack industry defined cities, along with dark alleys and film noir scenes, but with the urban renaissance, things are now much more in vibrant… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com When a son loses a father, there is such a flood of emotion that it will take perhaps the rest of the younger’s life to sort things out: No father-son  relationship is ever fully… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com With the beginning of World War I just a bit more than 100 years ago, with the lessons of that first of two cataclysmic 20th century death-rendering events as unlearned as they are in… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com If you combined a well-composed, British statesman-like fellow, complete with ever-present smoking pipe, and a fan who could give “da” loudest Bronx cheer at a New York Rangers hockey game, that would be Dick… Continue reading