Hi all I'm quite new on this list & still feeling my way. I was on it for a while, though not sufficienly long to be considered a "regular." I have some...
K. Lynch
croppyboy@...
Oct 1, 2002 10:23 am
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Hi Kieran, Ah, how I would love to visit AA in Australia! I suspect that the basic reason the 2nd edition "Foreword" said "1937" is that the early AAs were...
Ernest Kurtz
kurtzern@...
Oct 1, 2002 2:55 pm
558
Changes to the Forward of The Big Book -- 3rd and 4th Edition Note from Ron Long October 1, 2002 I read some rather interesting emails this morning. The one...
Ron K. Long
rklaa@...
Oct 1, 2002 3:04 pm
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Hello Everybody: This is a comment on Ron Long's suggestion that April 1939 should be the starting point for AA, not June 10, 1935. Nell Wing (Bill's longtime...
melb
melb@...
Oct 1, 2002 7:09 pm
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Ernie, GSO had a picture of the large group of Doctors at the AMA convention from 1935 at the recent Archives Workshop.... Dr Bob was missing from the...
Comment on Ron Long's history account. I have the name of Joe Worthum as the man who gave the name to the book. His family own the New Yorker Magazine. Diz T. ...
Greetings: This past month I was doing research on the 3rd Tradition. I heard on a tape (I do not remember which one) where Bill Wilson said that that a man...
... [snip] ... Doug, It's not a case of "lying": it's a matter of memory. Imagine Bill and Bob, in late 1938, trying to remember the date, long before "last...
Ernest Kurtz
kurtzern@...
Oct 2, 2002 3:29 pm
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The passage is in my copy of the 3rd edition, as in the 2nd, as in the 4th. In Dr Bob and the Good Oldtimers , p. 122, "it was probably early 1937 when a few...
I recently sent the following to AAWS, INC. and would sure like to get feedback from other long-standing members of the Fellowship of AA: Good day folks! My...
Wednesday, October 2, 2002
Diz Titcher of Tallahassee, Florida is no doubt correct that Joe
Worthum, rather than Joe Ward, was the name of the gentleman...
Ron K. Long
rklaa@...
Oct 2, 2002 3:51 pm
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Hello anothermemberaa, Whether your local AA servants (District, Intergroup?) are planning to take any action on Club No.2 with its Groups, our Sixth Tradition...
I have seen the photo of the AMA Convention at GSO & it is a beautiful piece! Just to let you know, 6/10/35 was a Monday back then & the Convention went from...
This file was originally started to make it easier to find links between people, places and things mentioned in the Third edition of the Big Book, Alcoholics...
Hi Everybody: This is further comment on Rick's letter about the Big Book development. The newspaperman in Akron who apparently pulled things together out...
melb
melb@...
Oct 6, 2002 9:11 pm
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The HTML version is too long so posting a plain text version - in 6 parts here. For those interested in the HTML version for all the interlinks between names,...
People In AA History - Part 2 C thru E ... 'Captain Jack' S. - from Maine, captain oil taker; discovered A.A. 1947; organized Internationalist's Seamen Group...
People In AA History - Part 3 F thru H ... Farragut, Admiral - US naval hero during Civil War, Bill 'met' the spirit of one of his sailors (P 276,278) 'Father...
People In AA History - Part 6 T thru Z ... 'T.' - Dr. Bob's nickname daughter after character Hortensia Twitchbottom (C 128) Tall Man - Maliseet Indian,...
People In AA History - Part 5 N thru S ... N - noted radio commentator, broke anonymity for money raising & publicity (P 309) Nagle, Father - St. Vincent's...
People In AA History - Part 4 I thru M ... Ian M. - started A.A. New Zealand 1946 (E 42) 'Icky' - 'nickname "Dynamite Man " 'Ig' - Dr. Bob's nickname Sister...
This is what I was able to pull together from various sources. Deals more with locations rather than individual groups. Many of the locations, Cleveland for...
Hi Everybody: As author of the "Ebby" book, I'm pleased to comment on Diz's mention of the cause of Ebby's death. I had to look into my own book to verify...
melb
melb@...
Oct 13, 2002 4:43 pm
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Dear fellow history lovers; I am curious to know of AA history in Tennessee. What city did the first group meet in? Who started the group? What date/year did...
In my previous message I gave the address for the webmaster of the Tennessee (area 64) archives but failed to post the link to the site itself. For anyone...
July 1967 AA Grapevine Big Book Stories - Updated (1 of 5) The Big Book of AA, Alcoholics Anonymous, was first published in 1939. A revised edition was...
The following AA Grapevine article was originally published in the May 1968 issue and reprinted in the November 1999 AA Grapevine, under the category of "Big...
Ron K. Long
rklaa@...
Oct 17, 2002 12:01 pm
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The following AA Grapevine article was originally published in the July 1968 issue and reprinted in the November 1999 AA Grapevine, under the category of "Big...
Ron K. Long
rklaa@...
Oct 18, 2002 12:11 pm
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Grahamn, I found one example at the Central Service Office of San Antonio, TX - Southwest Area 68 web site: www.aaofsa.org/archives/archivesindex.html The...
