On Pilgrimage

My first pilgrimage took place in second or third grade, when I convinced my parents to take me to Gettysburg:

Other civil war battlefields and monuments would follow:

As I grew into adulthood and my tastes became more literary in nature, my choice of pilgrimage sites did likewise.


Edgar Allen Poe house (Philadelphia):

Hartford Accident & Indemnity Company (Wallace Stevens):

Hemingway's Finca (Key West):

The Thomas Wolfe house in Asheville:

Jack London's grave:

Robinson Jeffers's Tor House:

Montaigne's statue (across the street from the Sorbonne):

But these are all ziyarat when compared to the Great Pilgrimage known as hajj: