Mike Foley's blog
Here are a couple of samples:
Towed-in skateboarders
Most of you have probably seen those incredible pictures, usually taken from a helicopter, of a personal watercraft towing a surfer into some monster wave in Hawaii, California, or wherever. Well, in the past week I saw two similar, but much smaller-scale incidents — although none the less scary — right here in Laie: Skateboarders […]
Serious about soccer
[Story and photo by Mike Foley: Originally published online through the BYU-Hawaii “Newsroom,” September 18, 2002] A BYU-Hawaii history professor literally used the arenas of the 2002 World Soccer Cup matches in Korea and Japan to further his research on nationalism and sports as an idea as well as a mode of behavior. Associate Professor […]
Hawaii Diocese recognizes Napela-St. Damien collaboration
[Reprinted from a press release I wrote on May 12, 2010] LAIE, Hawaii — The Most Reverend Clarence “Larry” Silva, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu, presented the Polynesian Cultural Center and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Hawaii with a special Certificate of Appreciation on May 7, 2010, “in […]
Thinking about ‘ulu
I was picking a couple of ‘ulu [breadfruit] the other day from my neighbor’s tree that hangs over into our yard . . . and it got me thinking about the bright green little ‘ulu tree that President Eric Shumway and a number of others planted during the Church College of Hawaii/Brigham Young University–Hawaii jubilee […]