Mike Foley's blog
Here are a couple of samples:
Owners preserve Kualoa Ranch heritage through diversification
[Story and Morgan photo by Mike Foley, originally published online in the BYU-Hawaii Newsroom, November 13, 2003] The descendants of the first doctor to move to the Sandwich Islands still own the family ranch at Kualoa and have significantly diversified its resources over the past 15 years to preserve the unique heritage and scenic beauty […]
Thinking of New Zealand…
After attending the Polynesian Cultural Center’s Te Manahua 2009 festival of kapa haka or traditional Maori songs and dances (as examplified by the group pictured at right) on August 8 in Laie, Hawaii, it got me thinking of New Zealand — a great place. So, I started going through some of my old photos and journal […]
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 […]
Senior missionary explains Book of Mormon “wordprint” analysis
Elder Bryce [Story and photo by Mike Foley, originally published to the BYU–Hawaii “electronic newsroom,” April 17, 2007] Elder Gale Bryce, a volunteer service missionary at the Polynesian Cultural Center, explained in the heavily attended April 17 School of Computing InForm meeting how two former colleagues used “wordprint” statistical analyses to authenticate Book of Mormon […]