Mike Foley's blog
Here are a couple of samples:
Pacific Pioneer: Aivao Leota
[Originally published in KALEO on April 3, 1997] Connections to Samoa, Tonga and Hawaii By Ipolani Thompson As a little child, even before starting school, I’ve always loved and appreciated journals and genealogy. Always! My mother, Vaiolini Leota Niko, was an excellent example of this for she was truly a record keeper. Her journals are […]
Times and things have changed: Part 1
Depending on how old you are and where you come from, some aspects of our lives have changed a lot over the years — largely due to advances in science and technology. For example, when I was a kid in the early 1950s, practically everybody on our block used a “party line.” If you don’t […]
HRI to launch taro project in Laie
[Story and photo by Mike Foley: Originally published in KALEO, January 29, 1998] Hawaii Reserves, Inc. (HRI) plans to bring taro farming back to Laie on a scale that hasn’t been seen in Ko’olauloa for decades.
The ‘big payday most entrepreneurs dream of’
[Story and photo by Mike Foley: Published originally in the BYU-Hawaii online “Newsroom,” September 12, 2006] A Honolulu attorney advises business students on exit strategies In the first entrepreneurship lecture of Fall Semester 2006, Honolulu attorney Larry Gilbert provided BYU-Hawaii School of Business students with “some real world lessons” on the “big payday most entrepreneurs […]