Mike Foley's blog
Here are a couple of samples:
5¢ ice cream and 10¢ movies
[By Mike Foley: Originally published on December 18, 2008] In a recent post, I mentioned the fact that I used to buy gas for as little as 12¢ a gallon when I was a teenage driver in Salt Lake City…which reminded me that just a few years before then, in the 1950s, I could buy […]
A sampling of my Kaleo pictures
For nearly the past two years I have been taking photos for Kaleo: Koolauloa News, the community newspaper of Laie, Hauula and Kahuku. While some of these were published either in the hard-copy or online editions, I usually didn’t have space to use all of them, so you’re seeing some of these pictures for the […]
What a ‘wero’!
Over the past 40-plus years I’ve seen Maori at the Polynesian Cultural Center welcome many visiting groups of their countrymen with traditional greeting ceremonies, but I think the wero or challenge-and-acceptance protocol the PCC and Maori from the surrounding communities put on for Te Panekiretanga O Te Reo Maori on July 27, 2010, was one […]
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 […]