The author, a 79 year old white man, is a graduate of East Aurora High School in East Aurora, New York, the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York, & Yale Law School and Yale School of Architecture in New Haven, Connecticut. He grew up in a family that was part of a Presbyterian congregation in East Aurora. Religion was not an important element in his family, although blessings were given at meals and, as a child, he learned the familiar prayer beginning "Now I lay me down to sleep." The family member having the most involvement in religion was his paternal grandmother, who was an acti...