Mike Foley's blog
Here are a couple of samples:
5¢ ice cream and 10¢ movies
[By Mike Foley: Originally published on December 18, 2008] In a recent post, I mentioned the fact that I used to buy gas for as little as 12¢ a gallon when I was a teenage driver in Salt Lake City…which reminded me that just a few years before then, in the 1950s, I could buy […]
A sampling of my Kaleo pictures
For nearly the past two years I have been taking photos for Kaleo: Koolauloa News, the community newspaper of Laie, Hauula and Kahuku. While some of these were published either in the hard-copy or online editions, I usually didn’t have space to use all of them, so you’re seeing some of these pictures for the […]
Serious about soccer
[Story and photo by Mike Foley: Originally published online through the BYU-Hawaii “Newsroom,” September 18, 2002] A BYU-Hawaii history professor literally used the arenas of the 2002 World Soccer Cup matches in Korea and Japan to further his research on nationalism and sports as an idea as well as a mode of behavior. Associate Professor […]
BYUH students learn about service dogs
[Story and photos by Mike Foley: Published originally in the BYU-Hawaii online “Newsroom,” March 5, 2009] Brigham Young University Hawaii Honors students learned in their colloquium on March 4 about a unique program in nearby Kahuku — one of only 40 in the world — fully accredited to train highly skilled service dogs to help […]