Margaret and Kenneth remember the last days before their wedding and talk about the fox fur he had brought her as a wedding present. Margaret reads about their final plans, people to host, her hunt for a wedding and an evening dress, and her…
Margaret and Kenneth talk about the wedding. Margaret reads from a local newspaper's report a detailed account of the wedding. Both give reminiscences of the wedding, its people, the way they dressed, and its impact on other wedding ceremonies.
After their wedding Kenneth and Margaret spent the next day in Chicago. They had lunch at the LaSalle Hotel where they were staying, and an early supper near the dock, where they were to board the boat that was going to take them across Lake…
Kenneth and Margaret tell about their impressions upon arriving at Stony Lake for their honeymoon. The new couple had taken the boat and slept like logs as it crossed Lake Michigan. They then rode the bus to Stony Lake. Margaret reads from letters to…
Margaret reads her letter from Gull Lake describing their visit to Niagara Falls, touring the Lake by canoe. She further describes their trip to Atlantic City while Kenneth was ill. They then caught a train to Philadelphia and to Trenton and,…
Margaret and Kenneth tell about their time in Bordentown, NJ. They stayed with the Hutchinsons while Kenneth resumed his church ministry. Kenneth got sick again; he would suffer this sickness from time to time for a few years. They tell about their…
Kenneth and Margaret say that their "period of adjustment" to living together was perfectly natural. They had gone to school together for two years, sat in the same classes, eaten together in the dinning room, shared visits back and forth with their…
A cornucopia of fruits and vegetables appeared on the alter at Thanksgiving. It was from the church to the Landons. Miss Abbie Farwell had superintended the present. She was a delightful old woman that Kenneth had become friends with in his church…
Kenneth tells about his painting of the car the church had bought him. The mixture of paint and enamel gave the car a gloss like a mirror. Margaret recalls that Kenneth once had all the "insides" of the car out.
The second week after the Landons arrived in Siam, Kenneth preached in a Siamese church to a white congregation. On Thursday, the vacation day, they went to visit a snake farm, where they saw vipers, cobras, and hamadryads. The handler of the snake…
The Danish Legation held an auction and Kenneth bought Margaret a China set there, the kind called Royal Copenhagen, for only $30 US gold (it was probably worth $300). Years later they sent it home to the US.
The Landons' house was outside the town and was not lit by electricity, so the nights were completely dark. They used a flashlight while going around in the house. One day as Kenneth walked into the toilet he saw a cobra, coiled on the seat of the…
Kenneth and Margaret discuss Kenneth's letters that have gone missing. He wrote weekly to his parents, but Margaret suspects his father threw them away.
The Landons tell again about their first year language study and exam, and Kenneth's first sermon in Siamese. It was about "A Friend of Jesus" and he prepared the sermon in English before translating it into Siamese. He was afraid, but he delivered…
Margaret gave a tea on Kenneth's birthday because that was the day that Wattana had its commencement, and they all had to go. Margaret explains the missionary work in girl education in the region and how these girls later were in high demand for…
Kenneth had dengue fever. Margaret roasted a small chicken for him and he ate the entire chicken. Peggy had whooping cough at the same time. Margaret did not got the fever until later, when Kenneth had recovered.
On an evangelistic tour Kenneth called on the head of the monks and offered to teach them about Christianity. They set up a time when the monks would come to the Landons' house. They had many of these sessions, and at the end Kenneth rewarded them…
Margaret tells about Kenneth's first evangelistic tour, a four-week long tour. She tells about their problem with insects and vermin in the house while Kenneth was gone. Kenneth makes a few comments on this first tour and the impact it had on him…
Kenneth describes his tour to Ban Don, the way he dressed, the people he met on his tour, and the preaching he had. He would gather people from anywhere between 15 and 250 to listen to his sermon. He preached and sang, distributed literature and…
On Kenneth's third evangelistic tour (Feb. 1929), the last from Nakhon, he visited villages and towns in the district. A young preacher, Ah Ti, was his associate. Both Kenneth and Margaret explain courtesy, manners and names in the Thai culture.
Margaret explains how Kenneth became friend with two prominent Thai figures, an administrative high authority, and a spiritual high authority. She talks about how these two figures, thanks to their friendship with Kenneth, advanced his work in a way…
Kenneth talks about his encounter with a negrito who came to his compound. He ran into them in the mountains and had no fixed dwellings. They could not count to ten and were very primitive. Kenneth wrote a paper for the University of Chicago.…
There was an eclipse to which scientists from around the world were coming to observe in South Siam. Kenneth wanted to go there and seize the opportunity to preach the gospel. He was always ready to take whatever occasion was available to him.
Kenneth finally found a reliable assistant, by the name of Tan Ngiap Seng, who worked for him for the rest of their time in Siam. He was a fine and reliable man who had come to the area fleeing an economic hardship in his region.