By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com   Rockland County, N.Y. — Though this suburb 20 miles north of New York City has been most diverse since the Dutch came in the 1600s, a religious  community movement strongly under way threatens… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com The world has always had potholes — that’s why it is not Heaven. And it has always had people who fix potholes as well as the many more who fail to do the assigned… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com Fifty years ago, visiting the 1964-65 World’s Fair in New York City was like riding a train on what was supposed to be a vacation, but troubling, intruding bad news from home interrupted the… Continue reading

By Arthur H.Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com Older folks like me have become our grandpas and grandmas in complaining that the “good, old days” are long gone, that things were always better back when. Well,  of course they were not, at least… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com Why does war often begin with a parade and end with one? At the first, youthful excitement, naivete, innocence, natural inclination and lack of experience and judgment as to horror fuel the adrenalin of… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com We the people must declare war. Our nation has been attacked, this time not by overseas terrorists but by special interests who buy our officials and who cunningly direct growing populist rage against big… Continue reading

  By Arthur H. Gunther III There are many things a boy or girl must learn if the magic of childhood is to remain intact, as it should in this forever scary world made by adults. One certain skill is… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com The first rule of old newspapering, when there were composing rooms where pages of metal type were assembled for the press, was to make a friend of a printer. Otherwise, he could do you… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com On an expectedly festive St. Patrick’s weekend that began in low spirits with three favorite draft beers out of stock at a village pub in my outer New York area, a mortal sin, my… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com With Daylight Savings Time officially installed, the one hour we lost from sleep over the weekend has been quickly forgotten in my parts of the Northeast, 20 miles or so from New York City.… Continue reading