Mike Foley's blog
Here are a couple of samples:
Taga ‘two-seater’
In the days I served in Samoa as a Mormon missionary in the mid-1960s, there were still lots of fale or Samoan houses, just like at the Polynesian Cultural Center . . . and falevao or outhouses were everywhere, usually rickety things hanging over a beach. At high tide fish would come under them. Ebb […]
Polynesian caviar, anyone?
We don’t get it naturally here in Hawaii, as far as I know, but I recently saw a post on one of the popular social media websites reminding me that for some of our South Pacific island cousins, this is the season of “Polynesian caviar” — palolo.
Mormon missionary life in Samoa, 1965
Story and photos by Mike Foley, originally published on December 7, 2008 Many aspects of living in most parts of Samoa in 1965 were very different for a person who grew up in an urban American environment. For example:
Family commitment to high quality
Two brothers who graduated from Kahuku High in the mid-70s have seen their Sunset Beach bakery grow dramatically because of a commitment to high quality products, such as their best-selling chilled chocolate haupia [Hawaiian coconut custard] and cream pie. Glenn and Ted Nakamura told BYU-Hawaii business students during the Entrepreneurship Lecture Series on Feb. 3, […]