http://www.aagrapevine.org/about/ The Grapevine is self-supporting. I would be VERY disappointed if the AA Grapevine stopped publishing the magazine. I have...
From the little I've heard Tom P. (Bill's editorial consultant and close friend) speak of Wilson's 11th Step practice, he [Tom] stated the following: 1)...
Bill W and his long time problems with depression and other things brings to mind his interactions with Dr Earle and Dr Earle's comments on their relationship,...
THACHER (not Thatcher) You can see Ebby's signature in his own writing: http://silkworth.net/aahistory/Signatures_found_in_1st_Big_Book_04_1939.doc ...
Please make the distinction between "The Grapevine Magazine" and "Grapevine Inc." They are not the same. The tax forms for one cannot be use to support the...
But it would not, as it happens, make it available to those in jail or prison, which is where at least anecdotal evidence indicates it is the most useful. I...
One man who influenced Bill Wilson greatly was Gerald Heard. Gerald was the man who introduced Bill to Aldous Huxley. I suspect that Gene Exman (the religious...
Hi all, I see Rowland Hazard's name spelled as "Roland" in many seemingly authoritative documents. Even Dr. Jung's letter to Bill he spells it "Roland". (Bill...
http://news.prnewswire.com/DisplayReleaseContent.aspx?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/03-09-2009/0004985249&EDATE= The Rev. Joseph C. Martin, Leading Authority on ...
From: "John Blair" <jblair@...> (jblair at wmis.net) http://www.fathermartinsashley.org/ In remembrance of Father Martin... Father Joseph C. Martin, S.S....
What A.A. Areas at present have free-standing repositories for their archives? Could people from some of these already existing archival repositories send me...
Where can I find the full story on Dick Perez from the Akron Area? What books or documents are there which would mention Dick Perez or talk about his life in...
Thank you for this, it has long been my belief that Bill W's spirituality is best defined as New Age Spirituality, rather than fundamentalist Christian...
I'm trying to get more info on Icky From Houston: Page 80 AACOA (the dynamite man). What's his date of sobriety, home group, etc., does anyone know? I have a...
Shakey1aa@...
Mar 10, 2009 3:00 am
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The first prison AA Group, we are told, was formed at San Quentin. Who formed it? When was it formed? Why was it formed? etc....
Here's the relevant part of Fosdick's review: The core of their whole procedure is religious. They are convinced that for the hopeless alcoholic there is only...
Hey Mike E. D. "Icky" Sheridan was the Panel 1 Delegate from the Houston, Texas Area in 1951 (he resided at 5020 Griggs Rd) and served on the Conference Agenda...
Juan, I did some brief interviews of Dick back in the mid-1970s. Because of the anonymity tradition and the fact that my dissertation/book "Not-God" was a...
Dick Perez was from Cleveland and as far as I know was the first person to translate the Big Book into Spanish. Dick was Mexican and according to Dr. Bob and...
Chips/medallions/coins/doubloons/tokens have not been produced by A.A., so whatever is put on them is a manufacturers' decision. There are no official A.A....
The AA Grapevine is discussed in the latest issue of Box 459, including that the Grapevine is self-supporting: "In contrast to G.S.O., which receives group ...
AA meetings in prisons were first started in 1941 by CT Duffy, the Warden at San Quentin. Check out his book: SAN QUENTIN, The Story of a Prison by C T Duffy...
The first prison group was definitely not San Quentin! The Philadelphia Mother group was taking meetings into Philadelphia prisons two years before S. Q. and...
Shakey1aa@...
Mar 11, 2009 10:31 pm
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Greetings everyone, and especially kauaihulahips Thank you for those wonderful questions. I am certainly no authority on all (or even many) of the questions...
Mike Breedlove
mikeb415@...
Mar 12, 2009 3:02 am
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Just a caveat to let you know that AAs are easy to please (especially archivists) but those in service and the vocal residents of the peanut galleries are...
I wrote to the Managing Editor of the AA Grapevine to find out about royalties and if the magazines are self-seupporting. According to the Managing Editor, the...
Ralph Pfau (Father John Doe) more widely read than Big Book in early Spanish-speaking A.A. - - - - Juan Rodriguez in California, in his researches in this...
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