Questions
Eleven questions, answered the way the desk answers them
These are the letters that arrive more than once. If yours is not here, the desk answers letters properly and quickly.
The eleven
Why is there nothing about the postcard part of the city?
Because that part is four square miles out of sixty eight and it is already the best documented ground in the country. The frame of this journal is everything else, and it is stated on the front page rather than left as a gap.
Do you sell anything?
No. There is no shop, no booking desk, no membership and no price anywhere on this site. The one commercial thing is the flight search, which sits on its own page and explains itself there.
How do you make money then?
If somebody books after using the flight search, the search company may pay us a commission. That is the whole of it. Nothing else on this site earns anything, no walk is sponsored, and no route has ever been published because somebody asked for it.
Can I follow these routes myself?
That is the point of writing them down. Every walk is on public ground, needs no ticket and no booking, and names its surface and its stairs so you can judge it before you set out. Conditions change, so read the date at the top of the piece.
Are the distances accurate?
They are measured on the walk and rounded to the nearest quarter mile, including any stretch that had to be retraced around a closed path. The times are an ordinary pace with ordinary stops, not a target.
Who writes it?
Perrin Teague, alone, published by Ward and Alley Editions LLC of Washington. Nobody is on staff, nobody files copy from elsewhere, and when a reader's tip turns into a walk the piece says whose tip it was. Registered details sit on the about page.
Why does the masthead not match the web address?
The address is an address; the masthead is the name. A domaine, in the older sense, is the ground a grower actually works rather than the ground on the deed, which is exactly what this journal does with a city. And this publication is not connected to any other one whose name resembles the address.
Are the photographs real places?
They are made for this journal and they show the kind of ground the pieces describe: brick, water, paths, weather. Nothing is composited and no picture stands in for a different place. The disclaimer sets that out.
Do you track visitors?
No. Not an analytics script, not an advertising script, not a pixel, on any page. The only thing written anywhere is a single storage entry that stops the notice slip reappearing, and the privacy policy names it and says what it holds.
Something in a piece is wrong. What now?
Write to [email protected] with the piece and the sentence. Corrections go to the top of the pile, get answered the same week, and are printed in the piece with the date they were made rather than quietly patched.
Still open
Write to [email protected], use the contact page or telephone +1 (202) 483-6710 inside desk hours. Tuesday to Saturday, 11:00 am to 6:00 pm, Eastern Time.
How this is made
The working rules: choosing a route, measuring it, checking it, printing corrections.
Independence
What this journal is not, what it takes no money for, and where the one commercial thing lives.
Every walk
The full run, with dates, districts and distances.
About
Who writes it, why the masthead differs from the address, and the registered details.