Mike Foley's blog
Here are a couple of samples:
Reflections of ‘We Are Samoa’
For the past 20 years the Polynesian Cultural Center has put on an annual “We Are Samoa” traditional arts and skills festival for high school students across Oahu. Here are some of my selected images from the May 11, 2013, festival:
Scholarly panel shares perspectives with Korean journalists
[By Mike Foley, originally published online in the BYU-Hawaii Newsroom, May 27, 2003] A group of South Korean journalists accompanied by two Latter-day Saint authorities from that country recently met with compatriots on campus and heard a scholarly panel discuss the history and status of the Korean Peninsula. The panel, which met in the McKay […]
At the karez oasis
The word ‘oasis’ usually conjures images of date palm trees surrounding a rare source of water in a desert, perhaps with some camels…which is partially correct when it comes to the karez oasis near Turpan (sometimes written Turfan), located in the Gobi Desert of far northwest China. The adobe ruins of Jiaohe — an important […]
Brushes with military and government service
[Story by Mike Foley, originally published January 21, 2010] First, let me pay tribute to all those currently serving and who have served in the military, especially including my dad, the late F. W. “Mike” Foley — who met my mom while he was stationed at the U.S. Army’s Fort Douglas in Salt Lake […]