Mike Foley's blog
Here are a couple of samples:
On the North Rim again
(If you do not see a video window above, go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-R1TzA9hdw) On the north rim of Grand Canyon My wife and I, along with several family members, recently drove from Las Vegas to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon in northern Arizona. For me, it was the first time in over 45 years […]
Samoa Mission Eldares sing again
[Story and video by Mike Foley — whose own LDS mission in Samoa partially overlapped the Eldares, originally published in Kaleo, February 2008] The Eldares, then (left-right): Elders Richard Nielson, Carl Fonoimoana,Wayne Willis, Randy Broadhead with Samoa Mission President John Phillip Hanks. When Elder Broadhead got sick in mid-tour, Elder George Murdock took over for him. A […]
86-year-old singer continues to market her talents
[Story and photo by Mike Foley, originally published online in the BYU-Hawaii Newsroom, November 2, 2004. Note: Aunty Genoa passed away February 25, 2008] The “Hawaiian Lady of Song,” 86-year-old “Aunty” Genoa Keawe, continues to promote her successful recording business by performing regularly in Waikiki and in special appearances around the world. Keawe’s son and […]
Hauula Elementary School centennial:
[Stories by Mike Foley, originally published in Kaleo on March 9, 2000, and March 23, 2000] It was five or six years before the first automobile, and more than a decade before the first airplane came to Hawaii that Hauula Elementary School started up in its current location. One hundred years later, the school will […]