Each winter, Perry Arrasmith travels from Honolulu to Cambridge. He writes of his collection, "My Hawaiʻi book collection has been a starting point for me to come to grips with the historical forces which might have led an American like me to such an amazing place like Hawaiʻi. It is a reflection of my journey to better understand the complicated socio-cultural, political, and economic forces which define the islands; it has been a way for me to comprehend my place as a haole, or local white of Hawaiʻi, in the state’s ‘melting-pot’ of various identities."
Exhibit
Virtual: Paradise Sought and Collected
View the third place collection in the 2020 Visiting Committee Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting
Dec 16, 2020 through Dec 17, 2022
Open to the public
Location
Online only
Lamont Library
Lamont Library