Kenneth preached his last Sunday at Columbus. He only had his final Bible conference to do before leaving for Siam. He talks about his travel arrangements, the shipment of his car to Siam, and his travel expenses.
Kenneth's letters to Margaret in the summer of 1924 were full of news about his mother and father's relationship getting better, in part because of Kenneth's decision to become a minister. He wrote about his desire to go to Princeton. Kenneth talked…
Kenneth was called in to New York in April for further examination because the doctor suspected a heart problem. The heart specialist cleared him, but the mission board doctor remained skeptical. Finally, after a long interview, the doctor…
Kenneth remembers a mishap in his performance at the Beltonian banquet when he and another fellow forgot the same word on the same note twice. People thought they had done it on purpose, and that they were pretending they had forgotten.
Kenneth recalls his mother's visit while he was in Princeton. He tells about their visit to his church and time together around the time and their trip to New York. From there she was to catch a train back home.
Kenneth bought an old flute, repaired it and learned to play on his own. He went on to learn to play several other musical instruments and later on bought a new flute, which he had to sell during his unemployment years in the 1930s. He never went…
Kenneth reads an account of his ordination from the Meadville newspaper. It was May 10, 1927 (contra an earlier account in which Kenneth insists that it was April 19, 1926). The articles describes the hymns, the sermon, and the ordination prayer…
Brad was pleased with the news of Kenneth and Margaret's move to Thailand to the mission field--for him it was a natural religious step. Mae was not, and she was afraid that she would never see her son (Kenneth) again. She was right; she never did.
The College had problems accommodating the growing flow of students, so many stayed off-campus. Kenneth had a roommate, Wesley Ingels, at a house they rented on Main St. Wesley was working at a bakery and had to go to bed early because he would leave…
Kenneth can't remember ever taking a book home in high school. His memory was that his grades in High School were not good, but going through his records he was surprised to discover that he had excellent grades. He also tells about him learning to…
In the summer of 1924 Kenneth and his friends would go swimming. He worked an early morning shift at a restaurant. He would pull ice often. Red Grange, a Wheaton boy, would come up and pick up a 100-pound blocks of ice to load for delivery. Kenneth…
Kenneth reads about his plan to get a quartet for every night of the week for the evangelistic meetings. He reads about his discussion with Dad Hall about personal works in relation to Calvinism. He tells of his plan to preach on Second Coming as…
Kenneth returns to the story of his time at the University of Cincinnati, life at the home of Mrs Heintzmann (who was a spiritist), his friends Bennie and Felix, and his struggle with chemistry. He also recalls his friendship with Katherine Lindner.
Kenneth interjects to explains that he is one of few people whose tonsils simply dissolved. The doctor had told him that he needed to have them removed, which Kenneth didn't want to do, and fortunately at a later visit the tonsils were nowhere to be…
Kenneth recalls his father's advice against movies, cigarettes, drinking, and bad girls, and how at an early age he discovered that "all these things are probably delightful." He tells about how he began buying his own clothes at the age of fourteen…
Margaret reads from her journal about Kenneth's wedding clothes. Kenneths comments on an elder professor's remark who thought the wedding clothes Kenneth had chosen would be inappropriate for a young man who had not yet achieved recognition in the…
Kenneth worked regularly for Robert Dick Wilson, with little sleep but he never really felt tired. He considered it a privilege to work with Wilson, who also loved working with Kenneth. Wilson would save special projects for Kenneth, knowing that he…
Kenneth started to get into fights with a number of kids and enjoyed playing with his friend Juddy. He and his brother's behavior draws criticism from neighboring families and the Landons eventually moved away to live at the edge of the town
Margaret tells about her family and describes their physical characteristics. She begins with her grandfather, Laurids Jurgen Moeller Mortenson, from Denmark. He managed to come to the US and attended Garrett Biblical Institute. Upon graduation he…
On Lincoln Street lived a woman named Lucy Fitch Perkins, whose son Larry was about Evangeline's age. She was a very popular writer of children's books. She would call the neighborhood kids to read them her stories, trying out her new books.
Kenneth tells about his mother's family and his frequent train trips to Brooklyn to his mother's home. Margaret gives the birth dates for Kenneth's parents and for each of their children.
Mae Landon was a very elegant woman, always properly dressed, walked elegantly, with flashing brown eyes. She was not the kind of person who would bother to explain things to people (like in the stout story). She would sit very elegantly and never…