Mike Foley's blog
Here are a couple of samples:
Origins of Laie street names
[Originally published in KALEO on April 3, 1997] A recent proposal to rename one of the streets in Laie caused Kaleo to investigate how the streets came to be named as they are. Kupuna said talk to retired art professor and longtime Laie resident Wylie Swapp. Typical of his high degree of organization and sense […]
Kahuku High: 2010 Fijian video most popular
Many of you know I’ve been a serious still photographer for many years, but about 15 years ago I started doing web-videos . . . and you can see the most popular one I’ve done, so far, below: A 6:12-minute Fijian segment from Kahuku High‘s 2010 “May Night” program at the Polynesian Cultural Center in Laie, Hawaii: […]
BYU-Hawaii Study Abroad group returns from China
[Story and photos by Mike Foley, who accompanied the group: Published originally in the BYU-Hawaii “Newsroom” in July 2006] Eleven BYU-Hawaii students and alumni, accompanied by two International Cultural Studies professors and their respective families, recently returned to campus after spending four weeks studying intensive Mandarin in Shanghai and another week visiting historic sites in […]
China journal: Housekeeping notes
Blog entry and photos by Mike Foley [NOTE: In this previously published blog entry, I describe part of my 2006 trip to Shanghai and Beijing as part of a BYU-Hawaii Study Abroad trip. In Shanghai our group of 11 students, accompanied by Drs. Chad Compton, David and Yi-Fen Beus and members of their families, stayed […]