Mike Foley's blog
Here are a couple of samples:
Laie Gardening Club gleans from the Nihipalis
[Story and photo by Mike Foley, originally published in Kaleo, April 23, 1998] The Laie Gardening Club gained insights into growing food at home for healthy eating when they toured Ben and Gerry Nihipali‘s home garden on April 18 [pictured at right]. The couple got totally committed to home gardening after Ben experienced angina in […]
Samoa factoids: Did you know?
In the wake of news from the September 29, 2009, earthquake and tsunami damage in Samoa, I was recently reading some Samoa history, and the following few factoids caught my interest enough to share them:
Polynesian caviar, anyone?
We don’t get it naturally here in Hawaii, as far as I know, but I recently saw a post on one of the popular social media websites reminding me that for some of our South Pacific island cousins, this is the season of “Polynesian caviar” — palolo.
‘South Pacific’ in the South Pacific
I was going through some personal family history stuff, and came across an old program I kept (for some reason) of the Mapusaga High School May 6-8, 1965 production of South Pacific. It was a pleasant reminder of some people I hadn’t thought about in years. Mapusaga High — built by Latter-day Saint labor missionaries in Malaeimi, […]