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 in a fabric store in this Bergen County borough. Oy, what an experience. Time does […]
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 nearing a really short but stressed 59 years. Some in these parts, a village in […]
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 to see the near end of “The Armory Show at 100” was art in itself. […]
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 the demands of getting to work and to the store and to the shovel and […]
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, even in this verdant wonderland of forestation, an urban fellow say to his four year […]
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 for the Jobless,” which rightly castigated the GOP for not extending temporary unemployment benefits for […]
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 to line-dry clothes, and always did when weather allowed while the kids were young. Nowadays, […]
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 as they did without power and heat, some for weeks? The mighty pine, a symbol […]
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 antiquated notion in this day and age, the very word “routine” summoning visions of safe […]
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 of America — just seem to multiply, knocking one another off, their inevitable fate weed- […]