Mike Foley's blog
Here are a couple of samples:
Kahana family shares taro patch
[Originally published in KALEO on October 31, 1996] Almost 200 people turned out early Saturday morning, Nov. 2nd, before the sun climbed over the Ko’olau ridges of Kahana Valley to squish their toes in the mud and help Ron Johnson plant huli or taro tops in his family patch alongside Kamehameha Highway. It had been […]
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 […]
Sharing old photos
I’m slowly going through some of my old back-up files (in preparation for donating copies to the BYU-Hawai Archives), and picked a few shots taken primarily for the Kaleo community newspaper or the Polynesian Cultural Center that I thought you might enjoy seeing. Some of these have previously been published, while others have only been […]
L&L CEO recommends decentralization
[Story and photo by Mike Foley: Published originally in the BYU-Hawaii online “Newsroom,” February 18, 2003] The CEO of Hawaii’s largest plate lunch restaurant chain says decentralization and giving management part-ownership are keys to L&L Drive Inn’s success. Eddie Flores [pictured at right], a Chinese-Filipino who immigrated with his parents to Hawaii in 1963, told […]