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Characters Portrayed By Wes William Yeatman, Lighthouse Keeper
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The Real Wes Stone Wes Stone is an historical actor/interpreter and storyteller who lives in the Chesapeake Bay country of Southern Maryland. His love of history and of acting has been combined to offer audiences a chance to experience history in a different and exciting way. Wes was trained as an actor, but his love was always history and the people of the past. Experiencing "living history" at a National Park for the first time, he was hooked! In 1979 he got his chance to try his hand at this sort of off-stage "historical acting" at the Richmond National Battlefield Park in Richmond, VA. Since then he has depicted various characters from the past at Plimoth Plantation, Jamestown Settlement, Appomattox Court House National Historic Park, Horseshoe Bend National Military Park, Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum; for the Historic Richmond Foundation, Colonial National Park, George Washington's Birthplace National Park, Gunston Hall, Stratford Hall, Point Lookout State Park, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum and the Calvert Marine Museum as well as for numerous groups, meetings, Elderhostels and schools.
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In addition, Wes has been a museum professional, serving as an educator, site manager and curator. After a stint with the U.S. National Park Service, he served for a number of years as Curator of Education at Agecroft Hall in Richmond, VA; he was site manager of Bacon's Castle in Surry, VA and Curator of Interpretation for the nation's oldest statewide preservation organization, the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities..
Wes has continued with his more traditional acting as well, appearing on stage, screen and television in productions from the BBC, CBC and Turner Productions, among others. But, increasingly, his choice has been his own brand of historical education. Moving to Southern Maryland, Wes returned to his first love - historical interpretation and acting, combining them into a blend of lively education and entertainment, which allows his audiences to experience for themselves something of the lives of the men, he portrays.
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