Join us in our Tinker Creek Project, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and the City’s newest stretch of greenway. Together, we’ll read the book; hear from guides (close readers who have spent time with the text); and explore potential public art projects.

Between now and April 8, we’ll read the book together and explore how we might bring it to life along the greenway.
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek was published by Harper’s Magazine Press in 1974, winning the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction). We’ll have online discussions and get out on some visits to the site from the 13th Street NE trailhead to Mason Mill Park. Join us as we celebrate the role of the natural world in teaching us to see, exploring together how we might pass along the work’s sense of curiosity and wonder.

OUR SCHEDULE
January 28, 7 PM – The Tinker Creek Project – Organizing Meeting
We expect that these will be hybrid meetings, both in person at 117 Church Avenue, SW and online via zoom.
Our tentatively planned meeting dates are at 7 PM
– Feb 18, featuring Professor Emeritus Thomas Gardner, Virginia Tech
– Feb 25
– March 4
– March 18
– March 25
– April 8
+ Some Saturday in-person walks and workshops along the greenway!
Learn more about the project’s inception in this Cardinal News article.
Our Sessions
ORGANIZING SESSION
January 28, 2025
Download the Slide Deck
Watch the Video
Reading section for next meeting
Pages 1-53
Chapters: Heaven and Earth in Jest, Seeing, and Winter
