On the beginnings of AA in Scotland: For what it's worth, Philip D attended the great OG meeting in Massachusetts in June 1936 where Shep C. was present (along...
A question arises; Were none of the original groups actually groups? All the discussion about a group only being a group if it registered with General...
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Jul 31, 2009 4:13 pm
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Can someone please verify what it says below (if anyone have a version of this pamphlet prior to 1991). Thanks. Just Love, Barefoot Bill The 6-Point...
I'm curious if anyone has any information on some members of Alcoholics Anonymous from Frankfurt and Lexington, Kentucky who were instrumental in forming...
From Arthur S., Tim T., and Jon Markle - - - - From: "Arthur S" <ArtSheehan@...> (ArtSheehan at msn.com) Jared on this one I guess we'll have to do the old...
Could the first meeting in Quebec be Montreal? These May 1951 Grapevine articles ... "Sunday Morning, Dec. '44 Began the Montreal Miracle" and "The Montreal...
Hello, There has always been some cloud of controversy about the founding of AA in Los Angeles. Kaye Miller, non-alcoholic, claimed that 1st meeting that...
I can't tell you much about Bernard Smith's thoughts, etc., but I can tell you from personal conversations with Michael Alexander that MA worked with Bill in...
The Dublin, Ireland Group was formed November 18, 1946. On November 1, 1946 the Dublin Evening Mail printed Father Tom Dunlea's (visiting from Australia)...
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Jul 29, 2009 4:37 pm
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The UK A.A. site http://www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk/geninfo/13history.htm tells this story: The Start of AA in Great Britain The venue for AA's first...
"Joe" is Joe F, of F------- Insurance. I have a copy of a letter he wrote to the guys out in Minnesota about getting Bill to one of the Camp Karephree...
Thanks for the info. I have the capsule version of his life. I'm looking for more in-depth information. How specifically did he advocate for the first ...
Vermont and Hawaii, from John B. ("jax760") and E.G. ("spaberlejr") - - - - From: "jax760" <jax760@...> (jax760 at yahoo.com) January 1945 Grapevine...
... Bernard B. Smith (1901 - 1970) The AA General Service Board was still called the Alcoholic Foundation when he joined it, in June 1944. His advice...
Hi! Arthur As you point out, the Conference-approved pamphlet "The Group" says that "The main difference between meetings and groups is that A.A. groups...
If the story goes back to the very early AA period, Morgan Ryan, who was the only Roman Catholic AA member at the time the Big Book was published, had an...
I'm looking for information about Bernard B. Smith for a research project on the History of the Concepts. Bill refers to him as an architect of the "service...
National Clergy Conference on Alcoholism, 1960 - referred to as "The Blue Book" I am currently trying to find where I can locate the material taken from this...
From Arthur S., GRault, and Larry Tooley - - - - "Arthur S" <ArtSheehan@...> (ArtSheehan at msn.com) Hi Jared I'm an active member in the General Service...
St. Louis, Missouri on October 30, 1940 Per our Eastern Missouri District 51 Archivist, Renee, "From Golden Moments of Reflection: 1st AA meeting in Missouri...
From Cora Finch, J. Lobdell, Troubled Individual, and John Lee in Pittsburgh ... I tried the old indiscriminate-search technique on this problem. Repetition of...
In Los Angeles our AA meeting directory says that the first meeting in L.A. took place on December 19, 1939 but that meeting died out. The first meeting that...
I recently stumbled across a photo of Jim Newton and Russell Firestone (online) and can't for the life of me remember where I spotted it. Does anyone recall...
Do we know who the Irishman is in the chapter on Tradition Five in the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions, pp. 151-154? It was a man in Towns Hospital whom Dr....
True for you, Arthur -- but the creation of the service structure and thus of Group Representatives (GRs, now General Service Representatives, GSRs) leads to a...
I don't see any cause and effect association between the IBM and AA slogans - it's seems like speculation. Is there a non-anecdotal source for corroboration...
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