For six centuries, a stone wall stretching more than half a mile across a quiet bay in Kauaʻi has done the same job, over and over. It has held back the sea just enough to trap fish, feed families, and outlast empires, plantations, and hurricanes. Two years ago, it nearly lost to a "for sale" sign.
That story now has an ending nobody in Niumalu expected, one involving a $4 million check from Silicon Valley.
