Mike Foley's blog
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Oh-oh…a bad smell
Jolene Kanahele of Laie recently wrote a poignant entry on Facebook that reminded me of a somewhat related experience years ago in, of all places, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea:
‘Mutiny’ in Samoa
Speaking of Samoa, where I served as a Mormon missionary in the mid-1960s, one day a number of us were traveling from Upolu, the main island in Western Samoa [now just called Samoa] and Tutuila, the main island in American Samoa. In those days Western Samoa maintained a World War II-era grass landing strip at […]
Laie carver completes Hawaiian wa’a kaulua
[Story and photo by Mike Foley, originally published in Kaleo, April 9, 1998] Tuione Pulotu shows his nearly completed Hawaiian wa’a kaulua. When the young man from the tiny island of Fangai in Tonga’s Ha’apai group first visited Ala Moana Shopping Center in 1961, he fell in love with Hawaiian tikis. “I really admired them,” said Tuione […]