Hi Vicki The "blue card" definitions of open and closed meetings are part of a series of Conference advisory actions emphasizing AA's primary purpose. The...
You are cordially invited to the first annual Dr. Silkworth birthday celebration! Saturday, July 24, 2004 at 3:00PM At his gravesite in Glenwood Cemetery,...
Hi I am Richard K. . I am a member of the Maine area archives committee. We have a reel to reel tape of the 1955 St.Louis convention. We would like to know...
Dear AA friends, I'm collecting 4th step guides. I have a xerox copy of a lenthy one, about 28 full pages, starting with General Instructions "Buy paper and...
I thought I had posted before but I don't see it so, I'll try again. Does anyone have a good meeting format for Beginner's Meetings? Thanks, Linda D "Florida...
I have a 4x6 card which lists the first three books and has the price of each AA 4.50, 12&12 2.75 and AA Comes of Age 4.00 at the top it atates (You may wish...
I have heard that the loners international group is the largest group in AA. Is this true. I would also like to know if Captain Jack was the official founder...
From page 7, Box 459, Vol. 50, June-July 2004: "Staff Report: Loners are A.A.s who are unable to attend meetings because there are no groups nearby. There are...
I am area archivist and we are often donated older Grapevines. The duplicate ones, I give to the Institution and jail reps to bring to hospitals and jails but...
Instead of donating the old Grapevines, a better way would be to find the articles on the new Digital Archive and print them out for institutions. This will...
Mel Barger
melb@...
Jul 14, 2004 2:19 pm
1910
Subject: AA on the Internet ... the Bulletin Boards that preceded the Internet? Thank you. G There was a FidoNet forum called A.A. SiP (for Singleness in...
You neglected to say what Delegate Area Archives you serve... I would suggest that after your Grapevines are duplicated into two sets, place the older extras...
Below are the literature piece that are updated annually. Service Material from the General Service Office THE A.A. MESSAGE IN PRINT-SUMMARY OF DISTRIBUTION ...
JOHN REID
johnyr1@...
Jul 14, 2004 2:37 pm
1913
The West Baltimore site went up 6/26/94, about the time the WWW went up. According to Archives at GSO we are the first and we have sent them a copy of the...
For Linda D (Florida Keys), You wrote in on July 8th asking, "Does anyone have a good meeting format for Beginners' Meetings?" Several early pamphlets for...
Do you know how to get an ascii version of the big book? Is that the computer disk or CD version? If so, how does one order a copy? ... From: JOHN REID...
Rob Childs
rooah@...
Jul 15, 2004 12:04 pm
1916
The Online Service Conference has a nice page on AA History on the Internet Here is the link http://www.aa- ...
I am interested in the years and General Service Conference votes that took place in order to publish the 4th Edition of the Big Book. How many votes took...
I'm new to this mailing list; but certainly not new to A.A. (16 years sobriety) and I have a question that I hope someone familiar to A.A. history could help...
Friends, A few items: 1. As of tomorrow, July 17, I will be out of town for a few days and the AA history lovers will be inactive. I will be at Shreveport,...
Hello AAHistory Lovers, My understanding of that phrase in the 12th tradition (...ever reminding us to place principles before personalities.) has always been...
Hi Stanley and welcome on board. What follows is a bit of long answer to your short question. A useful place to get a sense of the context of the Traditions is...
In Tradition 12, is about "anonymity". In the long form, "principal before personalities" is in reference back to the word "anonymity". It describes a reminder...
I'm looking for additional information regarding Dr. Bob's tattoos (i.e. location, where he got them, etc.). Here's all I've been able to find thus far (thanks...
Roger Dowdy
radowdy@...
Jul 21, 2004 1:57 am
1925
After some years of searching, I have just found some copies of The Upper Room from 1938 and 1939. This was the meditational book which most A.A. people used...
================================ The Early Akron Recommended Reading List: The Works It Contained and their Significance for Understanding Early Akron A.A. ...
[The Akron Reading List Part 3 of 5] ================================ PART TWO: But simply on the basis of what has been learned from this Akron reading list...
