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 […]
Oz: Hitchhiking to Gympie
During my six-month East-West Center fellowship Pacific Islands field study in 1971 (which I’ve previously mentioned a couple of times), my wife and I arrived in Sydney, Australia, late one July night: It was freezing cold (especially for Hawaii people), and I remember there was ice in the gutters. In those days many places in […]
‘Uncle John’ celebrates 25 years of China friendship
[Story and photos by Mike Foley, originally published in the PCC Imua Polenesia newsletter, June 2007] John Muaina (fourth from left, back row), his wife Luella, Carolyn and Eric Shumway and Napua Baker (right, back row) meet with AEM alumni in Xi’an, China Polynesian Cultural Center Vice President of Human Resources John Muaina recently represented the […]
Hauula Elementary School centennial:
[Stories by Mike Foley, originally published in Kaleo on March 9, 2000, and March 23, 2000] It was five or six years before the first automobile, and more than a decade before the first airplane came to Hawaii that Hauula Elementary School started up in its current location. One hundred years later, the school will […]