Mike Foley's blog
Here are a couple of samples:
‘High adventure’: Molokini and Na Pali
[Blog entry and photos* by Mike Foley: Originally published July 7, 2009] Years ago when our kids were all home and finances were tight, we undertook a family project with the hopes of raising enough money to go to Disneyland: Almost every month we would label, prepare and deliver about 10,000 copies of the old […]
Te Aroha Nui Maori group returns to PCC
[Story and photos by Mike Foley, originally published in PCC’s Imua Polenesia newsletter, August 2005] In the summer of 1963 the late Wendell B. Mendenhall, president of all LDS labor missionaries in the Pacific, asked 148 New Zealand Maori to help get the Polynesian Cultural Center ready for its opening on October 12th that year. […]
Keith: Author and educator urges servant leadership
[Story and photo by Mike Foley: Originally published in the BYU–Hawaii electronic “newsroom” on March 27, 2007] Dr. Kent M. Keith [pictured at left], who in 1968 wrote a series of “paradoxical commandments” as a teenage undergraduate at Harvard that have since spread across the globe and formed the basis for several current best-selling books, […]
PCC celebrates 27th annual Moanikeala Hula Festival
The Kamaluwehiokapalai halau hula from Japan Story and photos by Mike Foley [First published in the Polynesian Cultural Center blog, February 2017] As it has for the past several years, the Polynesian Cultural Center hosted its annual Moanikeala Hula Festival on February 4, 2017, in a perfect setting — under the monkeypod tree in the […]