Mike Foley's blog
Here are a couple of samples:
Samoa: Wedding cake and the shaking ‘fale’
Life in mid-60s Samoa could get a little strange for a guy who grew up in urban Salt Lake City. Here are just two examples:
Steve Young addresses EFY group
[Story and photos by Mike Foley: Originally published in KALEO, January 29, 1998] Pro-Bowl quarterback Steve Young [pictured at right] of the San Francisco 49ers took time out from preparations for the game to travel from Honolulu to Laie on Jan. 31 where he addressed a gathering of Latter-day Saints youth. The event, “Especially for […]
What a ‘wero’!
Over the past 40-plus years I’ve seen Maori at the Polynesian Cultural Center welcome many visiting groups of their countrymen with traditional greeting ceremonies, but I think the wero or challenge-and-acceptance protocol the PCC and Maori from the surrounding communities put on for Te Panekiretanga O Te Reo Maori on July 27, 2010, was one […]
Ono “char siu” and other adventure food tales
My wife, Sally, and I went to a graduation party last night for our nephew, Gabriel Kai Chan, combined with a birthday party for his sister, Jenna’s three-year-old, Kyra. Their mom, Ida, is Sally’s youngest sister and pal. We often have extended family gatherings at Ida and Peter’s house because it has a very large […]