Can I import pictures into folders not based on when the pictures were taken?

I am organizing my familes pictures and trying to sort what I already have and what is new.  There are a lot of pictures.  I have them organized on the hardrive and want to import them into iPhoto, but when I do that they are instead organized by the date taken...I want to keep them in the same folders/organization I have on the harddrive...is there a way to do that and if so how?
Thanks
Kris

No
I assume you are talking about events - in iPhoto folders do not hold photos, they hold other folders or albums - all importes create one or more events - you can not change that
basically you are approaching things wrong - leave events as date based buckets of photos and use albums and folders to organize along with keywords. palces and faces and samrt albums
LN

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