{"id":2027,"date":"2018-08-10T17:15:41","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T21:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=2027"},"modified":"2018-08-10T17:15:41","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T21:15:41","slug":"nymysteries-aug-6-aug-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=2027","title":{"rendered":"NYMysteries Aug. 6 – Aug. 11"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It\u2019s been a busy week in hot and humid NYC.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The annual Frick Staff Education Day was held on Monday.\u00a0 <\/span>Emma Capron, the 2016\u201318 Anne L. Poulet Curatorial Fellow and an authority on Netherlandish art, gave a talk and slide show on The Charterhouse at Bruges: Jan van Eyck, Petrus Christius and Jan Vos. It was a tasty preview of the special exhibition opening on September 18. There were a variety of activities for Staff Education Day: a discussion about the future of the Boucher Room, a demonstration of sun printing and painting faux marble. Shadow profile portraiture was a popular activity in George Washington\u2019s time. This activity ties in with the current Canova\u2019s George Washington exhibit. Participants created their own examples.\u00a0 <\/span>There was also bowling. Let us not forget that in the early 20th century no mansion was complete without a bowling alley. The Frick\u2019s is a beauty – all polished wood. The Staff Art Exhibition, Exquisite Corpse, was a knock out.<\/p>\n

A friend and I visited the Morgan Library. After a very tasty lunch of cold soup, deviled eggs and delicious pinot grigio, we went to Morgan\u2019s wonderful library on the first floor.<\/p>\n

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J. P. Morgan’s Library<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On Friday I went to the first of three days of the Writers Digest 2018 Conference. Today was\u00a0 <\/span>dedicated to query letters. Janet Reid has been educating and terrorizing writers for years. QueryShark.blogspot.com<\/a>. is where she lays down the law about writing in general and query letters in particular. Her talk was witty, biting and cogent. Paula Munier gave an interesting session on Beginnings: Your first 10 pages. There was lots of talk about pitching i.e. selling your story to an agent in 90 seconds. Tomorrow, I do it. Groan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Graphic Lessons: <\/i>NYPD Detective Steve Kulchek is assigned a murder case at the\u00a0 <\/span>prestigious Windsor School. What\u2019s bugging him? His partner being stabbed while Kulchek was buying cigarettes? Escaping an attempted car bombing?\u00a0 <\/span>His hated boss, Captain Dick Holbrook, being a trustee of the Windsor School?\u00a0 <\/span>Losing his girlfriend to Holbrook?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Graphic Lessons: What do a teacher, a nine-year-old and an eighteen year old have in common? Murder. Millie Fitzgerald applies for a private school teaching job, faints on a\u00a0 <\/span>dying man in the school kitchen, deals with a troubled nine-year-old, the only witness to the stabbing and with the eighteen-year-old niece of the murdered man..<\/p>\n

Graphic Lessons: Nine-year-old Dana is the only witness who overhears a person fighting with George Lopez, the soon to be stabbed Windsor School kitchen worker. Who can she tell? Her mother who never listens or accuses her of lying? Her father who\u2019s started a new family in Singapore? She tells Millie.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Mary Jo Robertiello<\/p>\n

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