Mike Foley's blog
Here are a couple of samples:
New PCC night show part of a long tradition
[Story and photos by Mike Foley: Originally published August 17, 2009] The Tongans welcome the young couple into their lives and community The Polynesian Cultural Center, where I have worked off-and-on in various student, full-time and freelance capacities for the past 41 years, premiered its latest night show — Ha: Breath of Life — on August […]
More “poor man’s cruise”
[Blog entry and video by Mike Foley: Originally published June 30, 2009] An earlier blog entry “inspired” me to dig out my old Hi-8 video tapes and put together a little web video of our Alaskan adventure in June 2001. After a lifetime of still photography, I was just starting to get into video at this […]
Teaching kids responsibility
While watching several of our grandkids recently, I recalled something we taught our kids early-on . . . BUT FIRST, I apologize for being away from my blog for a while, just in case anyone out there in the blogosphere wondered if this site is still active. Okay, back to the grandkids: My wife, Sally, […]
Original Maori artisan refreshes PCC carvings
[Published in the December 2013 issue of IMUA Polenisia, the Polynesian Cultural Center newsletter: Story and photos by Mike Foley] Before sunrise on November 30, in accordance with New Zealand Maori custom, carvers, service missionaries, island representatives, other Maori from the community and special guests waited at the Maori Village gate for a special kawanga ceremony to […]