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5746
Does anyone have any historical background regarding the institution of pensions for GSO workers? I'm trying to determine if the pensions that GSO employees &...
M.J. Johnson
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Jun 1, 2009
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5747
Anecdotal: early on in my sobriety, in Wilmington NC, (about 25 years ago), I remember remarking that there were no black people in AA meetings. I was...
Jon Markle
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Jun 1, 2009
8:33 pm
5748
As some of the group members are aware recently we launched a new website that hosts many early A.A. talks, www.recoveryspeakers.org, one talk that will be of...
azmikefitz
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Jun 1, 2009
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5749
... The Jim Crow laws were limited to public accomodations, so they would have had little to do with AA. Private gatherings were not restricted by the Jim Crow...
johnlawlee
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Jun 2, 2009
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5750
Did Jim's Story first appear in the Big Book in the second edition? ("This physician, one of the earliest members of AA's first black group, tells of how...
jenny andrews
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Jun 3, 2009
5:38 pm
5751
WASHINGTON, D.C. Jim's Story in the Big Book (Jim Scott MD, Washington, DC). Some regard this as having been the first black AA group: April 1945. Big Book,...
Glenn Chesnut
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Jun 3, 2009
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5752
... I would say this oversimplifies it quite a bit. I do remember in the early '60s the police pulling blacks out of white churches and whites out of black...
Tom Hickcox
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Jun 3, 2009
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5753
On Sunday, March 22, 2009, members of my HomeGroup rented a van and we drove to Washington, DC - where the Reeves Club was holding its' "4th Annual AA...
Cindy Miller
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Jun 6, 2009
8:27 pm
5754
Greetings: According to the history of the Evans Avenue Group, which is printed every year on the program for their annual banquet, Earl Redmond did get sober...
arcchi88
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Jun 6, 2009
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5755
They say "more will be revealed..." The San Francisco Group was the first child of the New Jersey Group! Below is part of the research I had done for the...
jax760
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Jun 6, 2009
9:24 pm
5756
... I was looking for something in Bill Dotson's story, A.A. Number Three. I noticed on p. 190 that three little changes similar to the one Gary mentioned...
Tom Hickcox
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Jun 6, 2009
9:33 pm
5757
   I have been revisiting the "Little Red Book," a title discussed here at times, and was struck by the way it recommends doing one's 5th Step with a...
Charlie C
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Jun 6, 2009
9:34 pm
5758
I have no known way to confirm the following told to me by an old timer that has passed on. Since the subject of black groups has come up, I was told that 48...
Al Welch
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Jun 6, 2009
9:41 pm
5759
Hi Group, When and which was the first Latin American country receiving the AA message? Best Regards Hugo...
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Jun 6, 2009
9:42 pm
5760
I have heard of the Metropolis Club in DC and have been to a few meetings there.  But I have never heard of the Cosmopolitan Club.  Does it still exist?   ...
James Flynn
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Jun 6, 2009
9:45 pm
5761
Is anyone aware, in either local, district, area or international archives, or from personal experience, of any information concerning African-American...
David
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Jun 7, 2009
5:45 am
5762
Dr Bob and the Good Old Timers, pp 247-248, has a story concerning the first black group in Cleveland, Ohio. - - - - From the moderator: Oscar W. made a...
Meritt Hutton
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Jun 7, 2009
4:21 pm
5763
Mexico Yis, Shakey Mike Gwirtz - - - - So for example, in 1948, Bill Wilson and Father Ralph Pfau met in California, and took a trip to Mexico together to help...
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Jun 9, 2009
5:24 pm
5764
Charlie and group, We must remember that directions in the Big Book were for those members who received a copy of it in the mail and weren't near any group, or...
Jay Lawyer
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Jun 12, 2009
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5765
The Cosmoplotan group meets twice a week in NW Washington DC. on Monday and Friday nights. Here's a link to the DC intergroup (WAIA) ...
Michael F. Margetis
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Jun 12, 2009
8:15 pm
5766
AN INTERESTING ARTICLE ON A.A. FROM A NON-A.A. SOURCE "Lessons From Rock Bottom: The church can learn about grace from the recovery movement" By Philip Yancey ...
Bill Lash
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Jun 15, 2009
2:16 am
5767
Probably the broadest search parameters I have ever seen!!! Good luck!! (But try to narrow things down a bit) -cm ...
Cindy Miller
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Jun 15, 2009
5:22 pm
5768
The latest issue of the Tularosa Basin Historical Society magazine, devoted to Rowland Hazard and his pottery factory, is now available. Ted mentioned this...
corafinch
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Jun 15, 2009
5:28 pm
5769
Just an FYI,   The Big Book was published on April 10, 1939 (according to the copyright). The Cleveland Group (Abby G - Group) was founded May 11, 1939.   ...
John Barton
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Jun 15, 2009
5:34 pm
5770
I got sober in 1987 in the Rockville/Gaithersburg area and I remember Big Norm. He was legendary in the Mongomery County Maryland meetings.  Many AA's in...
James Flynn
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Jun 15, 2009
6:08 pm
5771
Hello All, Does anyone have information on the history of Fresno AA? I think it started in April 1946, but who carried the message? Thanks, John...
John Dunn
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Jun 15, 2009
6:10 pm
5772
... I have read that Dr. Bob had input into the first six printings of the Little Red Book, 1946-1950, but I have yet to see any changes specifically...
Tom Hickcox
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Jun 15, 2009
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5773
Fiona D. has posted two new sections in her collection of Sister Ignatia documents and photos:   http://hindsfoot.org/ignatia5.html Sister Ignatia:  her...
Glenn Chesnut
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Jun 15, 2009
7:51 pm
5774
http://hindsfoot.org/archives.html (about two thirds of the way down the page)   Photo of a Renner's Beer Wagon in Akron, Ohio   When Prohibition ended, at...
Glenn Chesnut
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Jun 15, 2009
7:53 pm
5775
Hi All: Regards Rowland spelling .... in 2007 I got several deeds concerning Rowland from the Town records in Shaftsbury, Vermont and in all instances the...
secondles
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Jun 15, 2009
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