Mike Foley's blog
Here are a couple of samples:
Interisland boats in Samoa, 1965
[Blog entry and photos by Mike Foley, originally published online, December 7, 2008] In my “Mutiny in Samoa” entry, I referred to the fact that by 1965 most Mormon missionaries in Samoa flew between American and Western Samoa on a Polynesian Airlines DC3 [pictured at right]. New policy called for missionaries to fly whenever possible, […]
Beach baptisms in Laie and…
…throughout Hawaii. At the outset, let me say I sustain my Latter-day Saint Church leaders, and will follow their directions, one of the most recent of which I just heard this evening — February 15, 2009, when our Laie Hawaii North Stake President Finau Hafoka announced…
Teaching kids responsibility
While watching several of our grandkids recently, I recalled something we taught our kids early-on . . . BUT FIRST, I apologize for being away from my blog for a while, just in case anyone out there in the blogosphere wondered if this site is still active. Okay, back to the grandkids: My wife, Sally, […]
Shakespeare scholar explains value of Bard’s first folios
[Story and photo by Mike Foley: Published originally in the BYU-Hawaii online “Newsroom,” February 13, 2009] A prominent Shakespeare scholar who is on campus co-directing the Brigham Young University Hawaii Fine Arts production of Twelth Night, detailed to students in the February 12 Honors Program colloquium in McKay 101 how 18th century-through-modern editors of Shakespeare’s […]