Talk Story & Book Signing with Jane Marshall Goodsill

Welcome to Watermark Publishing, a homegrown Hawai‘i publisher specializing in books about the 50th State. Based on Bishop Street, in the heart of Honolulu, we bring you the best of the Islands — from sports stories to small-kid titles, guidebooks to plantation memoirs— and have been for more than 25 years. Under our Legacy Isle Publishing imprint, we help aspiring writers fine tune their work and produce a published book worthy of their story.We invite you to pick up one of our books and help us celebrate the Aloha State — its people and places, its past and future, its unique, mixed-plate culture.

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Join us for a talk-story with oral historian Jane Marshall Goodsill as she discusses her new book, "Voices of Hawai‘i."

Na Mea Hawaii at Ward Centre

**This event will also be live-streamed. Details forthcoming on how to join us virtually! Contact Na Mea Hawai‘i at 808-596-8885 or info@nameahawaii.com to pre-order books, personally signed during our event.For Jane Marshall Goodsill, Voices of Hawai‘i, a major new hardcover release from Watermark Publishing, began as a labor of love. A kama‘āina accomplished in the art of capturing oral histories, she began interviewing Island residents who had known her late father, Marshall Max Goodsill, a partner in a venerable Honolulu law firm. But avocation soon became vocation. As Goodsill recalls, “I came away from every single interview thinking, ‘This one was the best one yet.’ I remember feeling awe at what I had just heard, and there were several times when I simply had to call my brother or a friend to say, ‘Oh my gosh, this just keeps getting better and better!’”
As Goodsill’s joy in recording these life stories grew, so too did her pool of subjects: business executives, war veterans and POWs, retired plantation managers, Island entertainers, conservationists, taro farmers, educators, broadcasters, retailers, ranchers, activists, judges, journalists and so many others—seventy-five in total. Taken together, their oral histories told a fascinating, behind-the-scenes tale of Hawai‘i’s journey from the World War II era into the 21st century. The best of these candid interviews—compelling tales of deals made and glass ceilings shattered, of ancient ways revived and legacy lands preserved—are collected in this anthology under the themes of Island life: history, race, land use, art and music, philanthropy, development, and the spirit of aloha.
Jane will talk about the process of putting together her book, as well as some of the notable and entertaining stories included in Voices of Hawai‘i.

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