History often pulled up a chair at Jane Marshall Goodsill’s dining room table. As a girl, she would sit and listen as her father, prominent attorney Marshall Goodsill, and mother, Ruth, chatted with the myriad guests they welcomed within their Vladimir Ossipoff-designed walls. (The Ossipoffs were dear friends, by the way.)
Her book,
Voices of Hawai‘i, feels just like an invitation to that table, with the opportunity to eavesdrop on Goodsill’s conversations with more than 70 people who helped shape our modern history: leaders, activists, ranchers, entertainers, authors, journalists. She began her interviews not with a book in mind, but as a quest to learn more about her father’s job as a corporate attorney in Hawai‘i. But along the way, one talk story session inevitably led to another fascinating one and eventually, almost three years later, Goodsill had dozens of oral histories recorded on her iPhone.
Hawaii’s Renaissance Man makes the world a better place
By BY CINDY SCHUMACHER - | Dec 24, 2020
Aloha ‘Aina (love of the land) has been a theme for Uncle George Kahumoku Jr. his entire life.
KAHAKULOA –George Kahumoku Jr., known all over the islands as Uncle George, is a multi-Grammy and Na Hoku Hanohano Award-winning Hawaiian slack key guitar master, songwriter, touring performer, teacher, artist, storyteller, author and entrepreneur. He is originally from South Kona Kealia on the Big Island and headed Kealia Farms, where he raised coffee, ti leaf, avocados, macadamia nuts, guava, mangoes, alfalfa hay, Hawaiian herbs, teas, cattle and pigs.