“I can tell you that it was a good time. It was really, really a nice time working at Walnut Acres. Everybody at Walnut Acres was, you know, they were nice, they were respectful. I think that you know Paul Keene kind of flowed through the organization."

- Harry Geedey

“There is definitely a community here of people that are drawn together because of Walnut Acres and you know, I feel like I'm kind of in a bird nest, you know, sort of secure.”

- Jane Mulrooney

“He was a really kind, mindful person, you know, very very generous very, you know for the most part very very patient. But you know, I think that what was really what really stuck with me most with him is just his desire to sort of share and include me in things related to the farm”

- Nate Anderson

“Oh, he’s my mentor. He’s a visionary, deeply philosophical loved loved loved the land.”

- Bob Anderson

“He and Betty were like father and mother to me… my son needed braces, Paul and Betty took him to the dentist got braces and paid for them for the whole time and my oldest son started preaching as a lay pastor and Betty took him out and bought him a suit, so he'd have something to wear in the Pulpit. I mean that, so I just have in my heart. They're good people”

- Emma Mattern

“Paul was just the gentlest greatest guy that probably I've ever ever met really he just had a gentleness about him. He always recognized me. I’ve considered that an accomplishment for his age and how you know short of time we spent together. He was just a great guy. Just a great guy”

- Harry Geedey

“He was just a wonderfully warm man. And although he was renowned, he was very modest, not shy by any means but would talk to anybody. I mean when I was looking through this book last night when my dad passed away, he wrote my mom two beautiful cards. Somebody that he maybe only met once, but just beautiful, and that was his nature.”

- Jane Mulrooney

“He and Betty were just such human beings and had a love of everyone and everything”

- Emma Mattern

“He was very friendly and he always liked my dad’s stories, my dad was a good storyteller, he was so active in the church. I don’t think he ever consumed alcohol and he was a good story teller too and he worked well with people.[ . . . ] Howard was a Mennonite not old order, he didn’t dress in the plain the clothing they dress in then and now, but he [Paul] would find fossils in the fields to prove that we were underwater one time a million years ago and debate Howard on the creation of the earth in 7 days etc. but he always did it in a nice way, he was never strident or demeaning of people”

- Tom Clark

"I think a piece of me will always be there and I certainly look fondly at coming home."

- Nate Anderson

“It created an enormous camaraderie and network for me and the family in the broader in the Penns Creek but in the broader communities, you know, It's been a very rich. It is a very rich part of my heritage.”

- Bob Anderson

"We had amazing people that worked there and and made you know, some of the best products you could buy anywhere in the world and that you know, so I have this connection to that family."

- Nate Anderson