Mike Foley's blog
Here are a couple of samples:
Steve Young addresses EFY group
[Story and photos by Mike Foley: Originally published in KALEO, January 29, 1998] Pro-Bowl quarterback Steve Young [pictured at right] of the San Francisco 49ers took time out from preparations for the game to travel from Honolulu to Laie on Jan. 31 where he addressed a gathering of Latter-day Saints youth. The event, “Especially for […]
‘High adventure’: Molokini and Na Pali
[Blog entry and photos* by Mike Foley: Originally published July 7, 2009] Years ago when our kids were all home and finances were tight, we undertook a family project with the hopes of raising enough money to go to Disneyland: Almost every month we would label, prepare and deliver about 10,000 copies of the old […]
Laie carver completes Hawaiian wa’a kaulua
[Story and photo by Mike Foley, originally published in Kaleo, April 9, 1998] Tuione Pulotu shows his nearly completed Hawaiian wa’a kaulua. When the young man from the tiny island of Fangai in Tonga’s Ha’apai group first visited Ala Moana Shopping Center in 1961, he fell in love with Hawaiian tikis. “I really admired them,” said Tuione […]
Hundreds join in Laie taro planting ceremony
[Story and photos by Mike Foley: Originally published in KALEO, February 12, 1998] Several hundred kupuna, kuleana neighbors, VIPS, community and business leaders, residents, keikis, students and guests gathered in old Po’ohaili on Feb. 7 to participate in the large-scale restoration of taro to Laie. The sounds of the pu shell and Hawaiian chanting by […]