Dedication

To my dear friend, Robert Percy Nugent, New Hampshire's "RPN", Bob, to his countless friends and admirers, who started this project long before I came on board, encouraged me to finish it during his lifetime, and eventually patiently watched from above to make sure the deed was done! Without his mentorship this work would have been completed by someone else! And, of course to Peggy, for who can imagine one without the other, either here or in some other domain.