Several years back there was a research symposium held at Brown University with some AA members/historians and friends of AA attending. Since my divorce and...
I have become interested in the various representations of "the man in the bed," and am eager to add to the "gallery" I am making up. I have collected the...
Trysh Travis
ttravis@...
Apr 28, 2008 11:33 pm
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I've perused As Bill Sees Its for years but only recently noticed that many of the quotes from both the Big Book and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are...
An added tragedy for Sue and Ernie occurred a few years after their divorce when their daughter Bonna committed suicide after taking the life of her 6-year-old...
I would be interested to know when and how Bill Dotson's name became associated with the painting? It was not intended to represent him when it was painted in...
I don't see anything to add to your answer Tommy. It's fairly common to hear members say that the man on the bed represents Bill, Dr Bob and Bill D. What I do...
~~~~Hey there ... Just joined the group. Found you in my search for a simple list of all the ICYPAAs, their years, cities and themes. I'm the chair of the...
Wonderful, positive note: Sue married her old sweetheart, Ray Windows in 1975 -- 38 years after she had originally met him! Source: "Children of the Healer"...
Below is the text from the Silkworth biography by Dale Mitchell (p. 95 - 101) regarding arguments for Silkworth writing Easy Does It. As mentioned in the email...
Hi, I know a lot about Rollie's baseball career and his anonymity break, and that he wound up running a real estate office in Langley Park Maryland (where I...
Young People's Groups in Alcoholics Anonymous began appearing around 1945 in Los Angeles, Cleveland, and Philadelphia, and now they can be found all across...
If you arrange the slogans in a particular order and use the first word of each they will spell out: LIVE and let live, EASY does it, BUT for the grace of God,...
According to Bob Feller (who attended Hemsley's funeral) and Hemsley's relatives including Daughter, Granddaughter, and many other relatives, Rollie never...
The chief editor for the second edition was Edward Hale B., an artist and writer and a nephew (I believe) of a great 19th-century painter of Western scenes. ...
This appeared in the Columbus Dispatch today. The last paragraph mentions that Rollie's anonymity break affected his professional career, even many years...
... It isn't as if they were trying to sneak something by us as Bill W stated in the Foreword to "As Bill Sees It" on p. iv, "Because the quotations used were...
A "Betty Thom" was involved with the HFD (Habit Forming Drugs) groups in California and had correspondence with Bill W. around 1954. I've never come across any...
I just recently heard from a speaker (Keith L.) that in the mid 1970's, Henrietta Seiberling was asked to be a speaker and she was ill and could not do it. Her...
Hey Mike, Thanks for the article, but I have a bit of a nit to pick. The words in the article were... "Hemsley was a recovering alcoholic, and management...
It still only says management "feared" he may have been drinking again ... still no definitive answer. My hope is that he didn't drink again. I just want to...
As an alcoholic my sobriety date is the date I started my journey towards continuous sobriety. If I drink, my date is recalculated from the date of the last...
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May 13, 2008 9:39 pm
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A transcription of her talk is at http://www.a-1associates.com/aa/billwilsonmeetingsieberling.htm - - - - A reference to this source was also sent in by...
It might have been Superman, which was created by Jerome Siegel (who wrote the story lines) and Joe Shuster (who was the original artist). Both were from the...
Annual Bill Wilson Day Celebrating the 73rd Anniv. of the founding of AA June 1, 2008 at the Wilson House (where Bill Wilson was born) 378 Village Street East...
The first printing of the Big Book was printed by Cornwall Press in 1939. Some NYC filmmakers are seeking memorabilia about this press for a film they are...
Hello Group, I don’t know if I can answer the question how to determine when AA officially comes to a city, but I might be able to shed some light on early...
If you get the cassette tape of a program in 1975, hosted by Sybil, where Mort J. and some of the old-timers who founded AA in Los Angeles spoke, it will...
