Mike Foley's blog
Here are a couple of samples:
Last Kahuku bon dance slated
target=”_blank”> By Mike Foley, April 15, 2009 The Kahuku Bon Dance, an annual summer tradition for decades, is coming to an end with its final celebration this year on Saturday, July 25, 2009. An aging and dwindling church membership with no younger replacements is the cause for the decision to shut down the temple. The […]
Oz: Hitchhiking to Gympie
During my six-month East-West Center fellowship Pacific Islands field study in 1971 (which I’ve previously mentioned a couple of times), my wife and I arrived in Sydney, Australia, late one July night: It was freezing cold (especially for Hawaii people), and I remember there was ice in the gutters. In those days many places in […]
Kupuna, others harvest HRI taro
[Story and photo by Mike Foley, originally published in Kaleo on December 17, 1998] (Left-right): Sione Feinga, Theresa Bigbie, Tino Koahou, Martha Kalama and Lemau Tauali’i show the taro they’ve just pulled. It seemed like déjà vu as kupuna and other community members gathered at the new Hawaii Reserves taro farm mauka of Laie in […]
President Uchtdorf dedicates addition to Polynesian Cultural Center
Hukilau Marketplace part of effort to upgrade facility By Mike Foley For the Church News of September 6, 2015 LAIE, HAWAII President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, second counselor in the First Presidency, dedicated a major new addition to the Church-affiliated Polynesian Cultural Center here on Aug. 29, after which he dedicated the new Courtyard by […]