Dedicated
To
Stan, Christopher, and Michele Rice

To
Suzanne Scott Quiroz
and
Victoria Wilson

To the memory of
John Preston

To
the Irish of New Orleans
who, in the 1850s,
built on Constance Street
The Great Church of St. Alphonsus,
while passing on to us
through faith, architecture, and art
a splendid monument

To
“The glory that was Greece
and
the grandeur that was Rome”