Friday, July 23, was a special day for me. I met William Shakespeare. The Rustic Mechanicals, West Virginia’s only professional touring Shakespeare troupe, performed the “Twelfth Night” under the canopy of the giant shelter at Valley Park in Hurricane.

I first met the Bard of Avon more than sixty years ago in my English literature classes at Freeport High School (Maine). During my four years of high school, I experienced five Shakespearian plays. The Twelfth…