Mike Foley's blog
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Cultural serendipity
I experienced a brief moment of cultural serendipity when a number of Fijian and Tongan women performed a Fijian coming-of-age ceremony for several young women before they performed in nearby Kahuku High’s “May Night” program. The young women came on stage wrapped in traditional masi or bark cloth, which their older relatives unwrapped, before the […]
III. Things have changed: Way back when
As the third in a series on my blog about how things have changed a lot since I was a kid, I’m reminded of a prof years ago at the University of Hawaii who told us that our personal “stories” or historical heritage begins with the memories of the oldest people we’ve known. If that’s […]
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 […]
History missionary traces close PCC/BYU-Hawaii ties
[Story and photo by Mike Foley: Published originally in the online BYU-Hawaii “Newsroom,” September 26, 2003] Elder R. Lanier Britsch [pictured at left], a service missionary working on writing the 40-year history of the Polynesian Cultural Center, traced the close ties between BYU-Hawaii and the popular visitor attraction during the University’s Sept. 25 devotional address. […]