Mike Foley's blog
Here are a couple of samples:
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 […]
BYUH professor inspects ancient Egyptian sites
[Story and photos by Mike Foley, originally published online in the BYU-Hawaii Newsroom, March 10, 2005] BYU-Hawaii Religion and history professor Dr. Kerry Muhlestein recently returned from a three-week tour with the prestigious American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) that enhances his ability to teach Old Testament, the Pearl of Great Price, world civilization and […]
China journal: Housekeeping notes
Blog entry and photos by Mike Foley [NOTE: In this previously published blog entry, I describe part of my 2006 trip to Shanghai and Beijing as part of a BYU-Hawaii Study Abroad trip. In Shanghai our group of 11 students, accompanied by Drs. Chad Compton, David and Yi-Fen Beus and members of their families, stayed […]
Nearly 1,000 attend Iosepa launch
Almost 1,000 people attended a community-wide launching ceremony for BYU-Hawaii’s 57-foot traditional twin-hulled Hawaiian sailing canoe, Iosepa, held May 5, 2009, at Hukilau Beach in Laie. I have been writing stories and taking photos of the Iosepa since the logs first arrived from Fiji in February 2001…and thought you might enjoy these most recent images […]