Mike Foley's blog
Here are a couple of samples:
Laie chicken roundup garners wide interest
[Story by Mike Foley, originally published in Kaleo, May 18, 2000] You might say the recent Laie Community Association notice of a stray chicken round-up on Saturday, May 20th and 27th, has really taken flight. Since the notice appeared in the May 4th issue of Kaleo, the story was picked up by the Honolulu Advertiser, […]
Book of Mormon provides anti-Christ antidotes
[By Mike Foley: Originally published online in the BYU-Hawaii Newsroom, April 2, 2009] In his third and final BYU-Hawaii Joseph Smith Lecture Series presentation on April 1 in the Aloha Center, S. Michael Wilcox [pictured at right; photo by Mike Foley], a visiting instructor from the Salt Lake Institute of Religion at the University of […]
Thank you, Miss Rappaport
I learned one of my most useful skills in life in the late 1950s when I was in the 8th grade at Roosevelt Junior High School in Salt Lake City, Utah — touch typing. For that I must thank a most unusual teacher: Miss Bertha Rappaport. Anybody who took beginning typing from her back in […]
Mormon missionary life in Samoa, 1965
Story and photos by Mike Foley, originally published on December 7, 2008 Many aspects of living in most parts of Samoa in 1965 were very different for a person who grew up in an urban American environment. For example: