By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com Westwood, N.J. — Rising taxes, a dwindling middle class, O-Care debate, world events and life itself are so full of uncertainties and dilemma that we all need a day off. I got mine recently… Continue reading

My Nyack view (preferable to Tappan Zee Bridge)                                                                AHGunther photo By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@yahoo.com   Nyack, N.Y. — There’s a new bridge a-building across the Hudson River just 20 miles from New York City, though the original is… Continue reading

New carriage, old Central Park  (AHGunther photo). By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com MANHATTAN — On a snowy Saturday that did not seem to bother hardened Gothamites and assorted visitors, a trip to the New-York Historical Society Museum & Library… Continue reading

At Tallman Mt. State Park (AH Gunther photo)   By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com Snow — pristine, fresh, covering all the warts of ordinary land — is a childhood delight that we don’t give away to growing older, though… Continue reading

COLOR IN THE HILLS, a view off Bear Mountain (Arthur H. Gunther photo) February 3, 2014      Bear Mountain, N.Y. — You would have to be close — about 48 or so miles from New York City — to hear,… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com A recent New York Times edition unintentionally offered proof of the growing American economic contrast in this topsy-turvy world of post-recession stall. On its Opinion Page January 6 was a third-position editorial, “Republican Disdain… Continue reading

By Arthur H. GuntherIII ahgunther@hotmail.com My Colorado pal writes on a subject that many of us recall — clothes drying not in a metal machine but on a line. Elaine Muise Calabro, once of Rockland County, N.Y., says she “preferred… Continue reading

By Arthur H.Gunther III “LEAN ON ME,” said the healthy pine to its brother, the roots of which were torn from the earth during Superstorm Sandy in fall 2012.   In a metaphor, how many Rockland County, N.Y., residents required help… Continue reading

For some years, my son Arthur IV, a writer too, offered a holiday story published in this space. Reprinted here is his Dec. 24, 2007, piece.   Franklin was a man of routine. Perhaps such a person had become an… Continue reading

By Arthur H. Gunther III ahgunther@hotmail.com Nanuet, N.Y. — There’s a shopping center here that’s never been without parking vehicles since it was built in the later 1950s, a remarkable thing because such strips in suburbia — actually almost all… Continue reading