Mike Foley's blog
Here are a couple of samples:
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. […]
Happy Thanksgiving everybody!
I like the new Parenthood TV series, but was a little surprised on November 23, 2010, when the entire family thought it so strange that the “patriarch” (played by the actor Craig T. Nelson) wanted everyone to participate in a prayer before their Thanksgiving feast. At first he used his grandson’s laptop computer to look […]
Kupuna tales: Tautua Tuala Tanoa’i
[By the late Vaita’i Tanoa’i Reed…about her father, originally published in Kaleo, December 17, 1998: He is pictured at right at the Mormon Hukilau in Laie in 1950] When Tautua Tanoa’i and his wife, Felita Savea Satele, were Mormon missionaries in Samoa, they traveled with four other missionaries along with their five small children who […]
Wow! $2 gas again…
The other day in Honolulu (12/2008) I was so surprised to see gas at Costco — the one by Honolulu Community College — only cost about $2 a gallon for 87-octane; and that for the first time in a long time I sprang for premium grade. It only cost about $35 to fill up. This […]