This isn't much in the way of great photography but I have wearied myself silly today with all my tears.
It has been the tradition at this school, Holy Cross School in New Orleans, for graduates to process through this hallway of the original building, stop at this site and ring the plantation bell, then march on to their Baccalaureate Mass. Following Katrina when the school had 8 feet of water in it, the EPA closed the buildings. Students who came back to school in January attended in portable classrooms on the parking lot.
However, this week the faculty opened this building and scrubbed the floors and walls of the ancient hallway to enable the tradition to go on. It was the last graduating class who will ever walk this way.
Next year the school will open somewhere on a new campus. This is the oldest boys' high school in New Orleans.
This was the building in which my father lived as a boarder in the early 1900's. My three sons walked this hallway, too, as did my grandson today.