Our Guides
Colonial Tours of Annapolis utilizes guides with experience and personality. We ensure each guide is of the highest quality, offering an enjoyable and entertaining walk through Maryland history. Your guide will be clad in period accurate clothing, will present history in a professional way, and will be able to explain what life was like during Annapolis' Golden Age, when we were known as the "Paris of America."
William Ridgley Sr. aka "Billy Lee" has been guiding since 2013, starting as a docent at the Hammond-Harwood House and conducting walking tours in Annapolis. He currently performs living history during Washington crossing the Delaware on Christmas Day and with Historic Annapolis at the William Paca House and Gardens. William grew up in Annapolis and graduated from Annapolis Senior High. He entered the United States Marine Corps in 1990. He served during Desert Storm and the Gulf War in Mogadishu and Somalia. He received his Associates Degree in History from the University of Phoenix and is currently working on his Bachelor's Degree in History from Grand Canyon University.
Webster Wright Jr, aka Web, is a Graduate of the United States Naval Academy class of’64. During his career in the US Navy he received 41 Combat Awards including two Distinguished Flying Crosses, Vietnamese Air Gallantry Cross, 27 Air Medals plus the Purple Heart. He was a helicopter gunship pilot, Vietnam also ground and riverine combat. Since retiring as a Naval Officer Web has had four decades of photographing people in 33 countries. He has been a teacher, Instructor, Lecturer and Coach at the US Naval Academy. Where his teams have been World and National Champion in international rifle shooting.
Candace Ridgley, aka Candi, was born and raised in Stockbridge in the Berkshires of Massachusetts. Her grandmother was the private nurse for Norman Rockwell and his wife. Her father had his likeness painted by Norman Rockwell and was the cover of the Boy Scouts of America calendar in 1958/1959. She moved to Maryland in 1986 and met her husband William at Annapolis Senior High. She graduated from AHS in 1990. She is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amhurst with a Bachelors Degree majoring in Anthropology and minor in Elementary Education.
