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 […]
Rhetoric: Misunderstood, not just words
[Story and photo by Mike Foley, originally published in the BYU–Hawaii “electronic newsroom,” February 2, 2009] Clark Dr. Greg Clark, a BYU Provo professor and Associate Dean of the College of Humanities on exchange with BYU-Hawaii’s Dr. Ned Williams, said in the Honors colloquium on January 28 that the ancient art of rhetoric is “often […]
‘Johnny Lingo’ cast, crew hold Laie reunion
Story and photos by Mike Foley (July 2010) LAIE, Hawaii — Cast and crewmembers of the 1969 Latter-day Saint film Johnny Lingo reunited on July 29, 2010, in the BYU–Hawaii Cannon Activities Center to celebrate the cinematic Polynesian fable’s perennial popularity over the past 40 years and also to hear from two of its main […]
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 […]