Wilford Kale

Norfolk

Journalist at Daily Press (Newport News, VA)

Correspondent at The Virginian-Pilot

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Articles

Colonial Williamsburg gets ready to show off new silver display

1 week ago | pilotonline.com | Wilford Kale

As you walk into the new silver exhibition at the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg, you are struck by the simplicity of some modest pieces and the dignity of other majestic items situated against dark blue backdrops in this impressive collection of 17th and 18th silver. For the next several weeks, work will be underway to complete the exhibit “Silver from Modest to Majestic,” which is scheduled for its official opening on May 24.
Colonial Williamsburg gets ready to show off new silver display

1 week ago | dailypress.com | Wilford Kale

Where everyone knows your name: Third spaces grow in popularity as people look for community
I-64 rest stop voted among best public restrooms in U.S.

1 week ago | pilotonline.com | Wilford Kale

The New Kent rest area along Interstate 64 between Richmond and Williamsburg is the 10th best public restroom in the country, according to a recent survey conducted by American River Wellness. The New Kent rest area — at mile marker 213 heading eastbound on I-64 — also was named the best public restroom in Virginia.
Kale on Books: You don’t have to love Shakespeare to love this book through Judi Dench’s eyes

1 week ago | dailypress.com | Wilford Kale

It almost got away from me. I was planning to use Dame Judi Dench’s book, “Shakespeare: The Man who Pays the Rent” (St. Martin’s Press, 400 pgs., $32 hardback) next month in this column, but then I remembered that William Shakespeare’s birthday was on April 23, making this piece more timely now.
New Kent to celebrate Patrick Henry’s march in 1775

2 weeks ago | dailypress.com | Wilford Kale

NEW KENT — The 250th anniversary of Patrick Henry and his Hanover County volunteer militia’s march through New Kent County en route to Williamsburg to confront royal governor Lord Dunmore will be celebrated this weekend. Dunmore had ordered British marines to remove the colony’s gunpower from the Powder Magazine in Williamsburg on April 21, 1775.
As the Revolutionary War began, those in Williamsburg soon took action

3 weeks ago | pilotonline.com | Wilford Kale

Residents of Williamsburg, Virginia’s colonial capital, naturally did not know on the morning of April 20, 1775, of the events hundreds of miles to the north on the Lexington green and at the Concord bridge. They did not know that the war had already begun. Patrick Henry’s prophetic statements of March 23, 1775, in Richmond’s St. John’s Church had come true sooner than ever the most ardent patriot had dreamed.
As the Revolutionary War began, those in Williamsburg soon took action

3 weeks ago | dailypress.com | Wilford Kale

As the Revolutionary War began, those in Williamsburg soon took action
Kale remembers: A return to the place where the Revolutionary War began

3 weeks ago | dailypress.com | Wilford Kale

LEXINGTON AND CONCORD, Mass. — It is not at all surprising that the green is still here and a few miles away still stands the stone and wooden bridge. They are the reminders of the Battle of Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts on April 19, 1775 — the battle that triggered the American Revolution 250 years ago.
Restoration continues at site that provided a spark for Revolution

3 weeks ago | dailypress.com | Wilford Kale

“They’re stealing the powder! They’re stealing the powder,” a Williamsburg patriot screamed when he realized British marines, on the order of the royal Gov. Lord Dunmore, were removing the gunpowder from the public magazine. It was 250 years ago, in the early morning of April 21, 1775. The tumultuous scene of the Powder Magazine episode was reenacted and portrayed in the celebrated Colonial Williamsburg introductory film, “The Store of a Patriot,” that ran many times daily for 63 consecutive years.
Commentary: The lingering myths of Paul Revere and the 'shot heard round the world'

3 weeks ago | richmond.com | Wilford Kale

It was a soggy night that turned into a chilly spring morning across eastern Massachusetts on April 19, 1775, as Paul Revere made his historic ride and the battles of Lexington and Concord rang out with the “shot heard round the world,” beginning the American Revolution. When looking at this history, one needs also to examine the myths created by two poets that still cloud, to this day, the reality of the events 250 years ago.