{"id":2456,"date":"2019-12-27T15:20:30","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T19:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=2456"},"modified":"2019-12-27T15:20:30","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T19:20:30","slug":"ny-mysteries-dec-27-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=2456","title":{"rendered":"NY Mysteries Dec. 27, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_button\">\n                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n                                <img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nymysteries.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/facebook-button-plugin\/images\/standard-facebook-ico.png?w=474\" alt=\"Fb-Button\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>\n                            <\/a>\n                        <\/div><div class=\"fb-share-button  \" data-href=\"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=2456\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"small\"><\/div><\/div><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>The Stone Soup tradition at Judson.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>I was in a baa humbug mood. Not Stone Soup I whined to myself. Thanks to a hard working and well organized<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>team Judson\u2019s 2019 Stone Soup was fun. Three enormous cauldrons<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>filled with vegetarian, chili or chicken soup were offered. In addition there were various breads, crackers, drinks. I helped dish out the food and had a ball watching people light up at the thought of a good, hot bowl of soup. <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>There was another tradition: a table with craft materials: \u00a0bits and pieces of yarn, ribbon etc. for children to make holiday cards and a section for people to write a Christmas card to a Judson parishioner who lives in a bed in a westside nursing home. That\u2019s Judson!<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Lots of parties and going hither and yon. Christmas eve and Christmas day\u00a0celebrations were spent with dear friends.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0I met friends in Harlem at RDV (Rendezvous). A delightful French restaurant with charming decor, lovely wine, great service and delicious food. friends had bronzino, duck and mussels. I had foes gras (Please don\u2019t tell Elizabeth Warren.) It was superb and is about to be outlawed in the U. S. A. <\/i><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Happy New Year to all foodies and non-foodies!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Graphic Lessons:<\/i> What do a thirty-four-year old, a nine-year-old and an eighteen-year-old have in common? Murder.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Millie Fitzgerald applies for a Windsor School teaching job, faints on a<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>dying man in the school kitchen, deals with a troubled nine-year-old and with the eighteen-year-old niece of the murdered man.<\/p>\n<p><i>Graphic Lessons:<\/i> 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<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>accuses her of lying? Her father who\u2019s fled to Singapore? She tells Millie.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Graphic Lessons: <\/i>NYPD Detective Steve Kulchek is assigned the murder case at the prestigious Windsor School. What\u2019s bugging him? His partner was stabbed. He feels remorse over screwing up an important case. His corrupt boss is a trustee of the Windsor School. His girlfriend married his boss. 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Not Stone Soup I whined to myself. Thanks to a hard working and well organized\u00a0 team Judson\u2019s 2019 Stone Soup was fun. Three enormous cauldrons\u00a0 filled with vegetarian, chili or chicken soup were offered. 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