Mike Foley's blog
Here are a couple of samples:
Duo marks 20 years in Laie preschool
[Story and photos by Mike Foley: Originally published in KALEO, November 29, 1997] Gerry Nihipali [pictured at right] and Lilian Makaiau have been preparing children for school for 20 years in Laie. They teach preschool for four-year-olds and last year they had children of former students in their classes. Their students mainly come from Laie, […]
A primer on Polynesian pronounciation…
When I first started learning Samoan in 1965, I soon discovered: It is totally unrelated to English or any other European language, except for ‘upu afakasi — borrowed or “half-caste” words. Please note, Samoa does not have a caste system, but the word afakasi refers to someone or something of mixed heritage. English speakers can […]
The beauty and harmony of Navaho rugs
One of the side benefits of recently staying at Jacob Lake Inn near the North Rim of the Grand Canyon was meeting the grandson of the founders, John Rich, who used his personal experiences and 40-year career of dealing in hand-woven Navaho rugs to help us understand the concept of hozho. Rich, pictured at left, […]
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 […]