The Angry Conch overlooked a stretch of beach on the other end of Rockhead Island from the marina. It was the Yin to the Yang, the opposite end of the spectrum from the yacht-and-country-clubbers the island’s management worked to attract. The bar sat on the only land parcel the developers had been unable to negotiate. The land had history.
The Angry Conch overlooked In 1875 Ezekiel Thornton had deeded the entire island to the Williams, a family who for three generations, had worked as slaves on the family plantation before the end of the Civil War. Two versions of Ezekiel’s generosity survived—and to this day, remained entirely contradictory.
The first version: Ezekiel, in his later days, had been stricken with an unknown malady. The condition had produced a raging, and mostly-uncontrol
