Mike Foley's blog
Here are a couple of samples:
Please ‘courtesy flush’
After several hours of doing research at the BYU-Hawaii Archives in Laie this past week, I went to one of the men’s bathrooms, and was surprised to find that a previous patron in the only available stall had not bothered to flush. Ewww, he left his stinky mess behind . . . which, you may […]
‘South Pacific’ in the South Pacific
I was going through some personal family history stuff, and came across an old program I kept (for some reason) of the Mapusaga High School May 6-8, 1965 production of South Pacific. It was a pleasant reminder of some people I hadn’t thought about in years. Mapusaga High — built by Latter-day Saint labor missionaries in Malaeimi, […]
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 […]
Guadalcanal: A veritable WWII ‘museum’
When my wife, Sally Ann, and I were on my East-West Center field trip in 1971, we stopped for a few days on the large, tropical island of Guadalcanal in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate (usually abbreviated BSIP; the island nation would not gain independence until 1978). The place was particularly fascinating to me because […]