Mike Foley's blog
Here are a couple of samples:
Last Kahuku bon dance slated
target=”_blank”> By Mike Foley, April 15, 2009 The Kahuku Bon Dance, an annual summer tradition for decades, is coming to an end with its final celebration this year on Saturday, July 25, 2009. An aging and dwindling church membership with no younger replacements is the cause for the decision to shut down the temple. The […]
Hauula Elementary School centennial:
[Stories by Mike Foley, originally published in Kaleo on March 9, 2000, and March 23, 2000] It was five or six years before the first automobile, and more than a decade before the first airplane came to Hawaii that Hauula Elementary School started up in its current location. One hundred years later, the school will […]
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 […]
Rapa Nui leader pays official visit to BYU-Hawaii, PCC
[Story and photo by Mike Foley: Published originally in the BYU-Hawaii online “Newsroom,” April 11, 2005 In February 2004 when Elder Jeffrey R. Holland of The Quorum of the Twelve served in residence as President of the Chile Area, he became the first LDS Apostle to visit Easter Island — or Rapa Nui as its […]