To Arrive Where We Started was a curatorial project at the Redwood Library and Athenaeum in Newport, RI The project was comprised of six interventions using the building’s historic architecture and artifacts to address themes of exploration, access, and thresholds – concepts relevant to a library located in one of the nation's oldest seaports. Our digital age is characterized by a pervasive dematerialization of knowledge, making it easy to forget that books and even words are objects.