Mike Foley's blog
Here are a couple of samples:
Kupuna, others harvest HRI taro
[Story and photo by Mike Foley, originally published in Kaleo on December 17, 1998] (Left-right): Sione Feinga, Theresa Bigbie, Tino Koahou, Martha Kalama and Lemau Tauali’i show the taro they’ve just pulled. It seemed like déjà vu as kupuna and other community members gathered at the new Hawaii Reserves taro farm mauka of Laie in […]
‘Coming of Age’ with Margaret Mead
[Blog and photos by Mike Foley: Originally published July 8, 2009] In 1925-26, armed with a Columbia University Ph.D. in cultural anthropology, 23-year-old Margaret Mead spent about six months on the island of Ta’u, Manu’a, American Samoa, conducting field research on whether nurture or nature was predominant in determining behavior. Her controversial book, Coming of […]
Korea: Nam Dae Mun market
[kaltura-widget wid=”pf1nayny6o” width=”410″ height=”364″ addpermission=”3″ editpermission=”3″ align=”center” /] Most of my regulars know I’m a writer and photographer, but you may not realize I have also been very interested in digital video for the past nine years . . . so from time to time I would also like to share some of my video […]
Kolea expert spends two weeks at BYU-Hawaii
[Story by Mike Foley: Originally published in the online BYU-Hawaii Newsroom, January 21, 2008] One of the foremost international experts on Pluvialis fulva — the Pacific Golden-Plover — has spent the past two weeks at BYU-Hawaii helping faculty and students, as well as state and federal researchers, net and band specimens of the unique long-distance […]