Billy Davis
Billy Davis Property Developer Human Rights Activist Hurricane Relief Coordinator State Senator (Two Terms) Vietnam Veteran (Two Tours) United States Navy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This is a Letter dated 19 August 2005 from one of our Rum Cay Bahamas land buyers
Dear Folks,
I would like to tell you some things about a very special individual, a gentle person with a big heart. You may know him. His name is Billy Davis. He’s spent the past several years developing land on Rum Cay Bahamas.
Let me tell you a personal story, one that came way before ground was broken on Billy’s property on Rum Cay. I first met Billy in Abaco after hurricane Floyd. He flew to the island many times with huge amounts of relief items for this devastated island. He gave generously. Way more than anyone could imagine. At Christmas he and his family flew over to help disperse toys that filled every square inch of a DC 3. Children lined the roads as he and his group of volunteers passed out gifts up and down the island.
Stories of his altruistic work on Abaco after the hurricane could go on for many pages. However, I came to know and respect this man in an even more personal way.
Early in January of 2000, my 17 year-old son, was shot by an even younger teenage boy. The damage inflicted by the 45 was so great the doctors didn’t expect him to live. I moved into his hospital room and wouldn’t leave his side. I was devastated.
Although I only knew Billy from the hurricane relief efforts in Abaco, on two different occasions Billy appeared in the doorway of my son’s hospital room. Each time he visited he had a just little time between planes flying in and out of the Orlando International Airport. Billy went out of his way to be there at the hospital expressing his empathy and compassion. He talked of prayers extended by he and his family. Billy probably didn’t know it but that act of kindness gave me strength to face some of the most difficult days of my life. This truly unselfish act provided much needed healing energy. Billy demonstrated what I can only describe as Christ-like love. Over the months, in some miraculous way, my son survived and is strong and healthy today.
Billy, thank you for being there. You are truly a unique and wonderful individual.
Sincerely,
Kay Politano
kaypolitano@hotmail.com
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Rum Cay was first known as Mamana by the Lucayan
Indians. It is a small, sparsely populated island, located 20 miles southwest
of San Salvador, and 185 miles southeast of Nassau (Lat. N23 42’ 30”
– Long. W74 50’ 00”). It is approximately 30 Sq. miles in
size, 9.5 miles long by 5 miles wide. The island is mainly flat with a few
rolling hills rising to about 130 feet.
Rum Cay offers miles of beautiful, white, sandy, deserted beaches, rolling
green hills and azure waters. Christopher Columbus made his second stop
in the New World at Rum Cay, giving it the name Santa Maria de la Concepcion.
The modern name, Rum Cay, is said to be in memory of a wreck destroyed with
a cargo of rum which foundered off the coral reefs which surround the Island's
shore.
Settled by Loyalist planters during the 18th century, Rum Cay was once famous
for salt and pineapples. Plantation boundaries known as ‘margins’,
which date from the beginning of the 19th century, and the ruins of slave
settlements, can be seen all over the island. The mid to late 1800’s
brought prosperity to Rum Cay. The population grew to over 5,000 citizens,
founding a number of settlements throughout the island. The island people
primarily worked the salt claims, shipping cargos of salt to far away places
like England and Nova Scotia. Pineapple, salt and sisal have all been important
industries. However, competition and natural disasters, such as the 1926
hurricane, have all taken their toll. Today, tourism and second home ownership
are the main sources of employment.