Mike Foley's blog
Here are a couple of samples:
BYUH Hawaiian Studies faculty to report on historic sail
[Story and photos by Mike Foley, originally published in the BYU-Hawaii online Newsroom, April 12, 2007] Two members of the BYUH Hawaiian Studies program will report on their participation as crew members during the recent open-ocean journey of two voyaging canoes from Hawaii to Satawal in Micronesia to honor the man responsible for restoring traditional […]
‘Mutiny’ in Samoa
Speaking of Samoa, where I served as a Mormon missionary in the mid-1960s, one day a number of us were traveling from Upolu, the main island in Western Samoa [now just called Samoa] and Tutuila, the main island in American Samoa. In those days Western Samoa maintained a World War II-era grass landing strip at […]
Kupuna tales: Old Laie and the Hukilau
[By Mike Foley: Originally published in KALEO, September 25, 1997] Ahi Logan’s [pictured on left] family roots run deep in Hawaii. Names like Kuakaha, Kawaiopua, Kaleohano, Nainoa and Lokona Kalili have great meaning to him, his family and the community. These are names of just a few of his ancestors. Logan can trace his family […]
Taga ‘two-seater’
In the days I served in Samoa as a Mormon missionary in the mid-1960s, there were still lots of fale or Samoan houses, just like at the Polynesian Cultural Center . . . and falevao or outhouses were everywhere, usually rickety things hanging over a beach. At high tide fish would come under them. Ebb […]