Mike Foley's blog
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This just in: Watch out for third-hand smoke!
I’ve blogged before about my feelings and experiences on first- and second-hand tobacco smoke . . . but I have to admit I was kinda’ surprised this past week to learn there’s such a thing as third-hand smoke — tobacco smoke contamination that lingers in the environment after a cigarette has been extinguished. A quick […]
With the queen at the Great Council
[Story and bottom photos by Mike Foley, partially published on April 24, 2009] I remember the first time I saw HRH Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain: It was during her coronation on June 2, 1953 [pictured at right] — and one reason that event sticks in my mind is because it was also the […]
Mormon missionary life in Samoa, 1965
Story and photos by Mike Foley, originally published on December 7, 2008 Many aspects of living in most parts of Samoa in 1965 were very different for a person who grew up in an urban American environment. For example:
MPHS tours small, old cemeteries in Laie
MPHS members at the small cemetery on the Hau‘ula side of Temple Hill About three dozen people, including kupuna, gained new appreciation for the aloha of families and volunteers during the Mormon Pacific Historical Society’s (MPHS) November 24, 2007, tour of five small and previously completely overgrown cemeteries in Laie. In fact, many community residents […]