You're going to laugh because I used Sorcery and Cecilia and the letter game as a basis, back in the late '80s, for high-school kids in a creative writing class in which I had them team up and write a story in letter form. I sorta/kinda replicated it here in England with a module for Year 7; A and I put it together last year and it's still being used! I actually wrote a letter to the authors back in the '80s and heard back from Caroline Stevermer who thought it was nifty! :)

I'm glad the New Orleans trip was good in many ways for M and for New Orleans as well. It really does sound as if very little was done to prevent damage and very little is being done now to repair it. :(