Mike Foley's blog
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Korea: Nam Dae Mun market
[kaltura-widget wid=”pf1nayny6o” width=”410″ height=”364″ addpermission=”3″ editpermission=”3″ align=”center” /] Most of my regulars know I’m a writer and photographer, but you may not realize I have also been very interested in digital video for the past nine years . . . so from time to time I would also like to share some of my video […]
BYUH professor inspects ancient Egyptian sites
[Story and photos by Mike Foley, originally published online in the BYU-Hawaii Newsroom, March 10, 2005] BYU-Hawaii Religion and history professor Dr. Kerry Muhlestein recently returned from a three-week tour with the prestigious American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) that enhances his ability to teach Old Testament, the Pearl of Great Price, world civilization and […]
‘Coming of Age’ with Margaret Mead
[Blog and photos by Mike Foley: Originally published July 8, 2009] In 1925-26, armed with a Columbia University Ph.D. in cultural anthropology, 23-year-old Margaret Mead spent about six months on the island of Ta’u, Manu’a, American Samoa, conducting field research on whether nurture or nature was predominant in determining behavior. Her controversial book, Coming of […]
Oh-oh…a bad smell
Jolene Kanahele of Laie recently wrote a poignant entry on Facebook that reminded me of a somewhat related experience years ago in, of all places, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea: