Full participation in small town life entails tracking the web of high profile out-of-town visitors and remembering any time the town or region was featured in newspapers, film, television, music, or literature. This is especially true of Kauai, the smallest of the four major Hawaiian islands. People who live on Kauai might gossip that Oprah flew a helicopter to Puka Dog or that Tiger Woods visited Brick Oven Pizza or that Evangeline Lilly (“Kate” from “LOST”) was spotted, without bangs, at a Starbucks in Poipu, but they will also go beyond celebrity vacations gone viral and share the myriad, verifiable ways the island has participated in mainland American culture. In that spirit, here’s an equally valid and vapid primer for chatting about Kauai.
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