But the story continues today because Weldan Pond also became the unexpected dream of its current owners, Jack and Beverly Lawson. Beverly is the daughter of William and Ethel (Wells) Daniel and granddaughter of the Wells family who bought the property a hundred years ago. We bought the property from the family estate after seeing a coffee table book featuring pictures of old Virginia homes in the process of falling apart from neglect. We knew instantly that we couldn’t let that happen to this old family homeplace. Jack had fallen in love with it when he first visited after meeting Beverly in November of 1979. I fell in love with her about the same time and we took on this project in late 2017. We named the place Weldan Pond in honor of her parents, Ethel Wells and William (Bill) Daniel). After a lot of elbow grease and scores of new skills learned, the house is in fine order. And now after 40 years of marriage, the old family homeplace is our home. |