AA Book Club

 Thoughts for the week:

 Clarence S, founder of the Cleveland Group, from 1966:

  The common Sense of Drinking by Richard Peabody was very influential on the Big Book. You can read it here :

  From our AA Book Club study guide, a Big Book topic for discussion or meditation:

 Thoughts for the week:

This week's speaker link:

 A history talk on A.A. influencers Frank Buchman (founder of the Oxford Group), Carl Jung and Dr. Silkworth:

 William James' The Varieties of Religious Experience is mentioned twice in the Big Book. Read about it's influence on A.A. here:

 Thoughts for the week: May 17  GET SOME DEMONSTRATIONS

 Bill Dotson, A.A. #3 (The Man on the Bed), 1951:

  The pioneers of Alcoholics Anonymous - the earliest members to get sober (and some who didn't):

  In the 1940's, Akron AA published five pamphlets under Dr. Bob's supervision. They show how A.A.'s first group viewed the program of action shortly after the Big Book was published.

 Thoughts for the week:

 Saturday speaker link: Bill W. Sam Shoemaker and Father Ed Dowling, 1955:

Early Akron A.A.(Audio):   

 Dr. Bob is not known for his writings, but here is an article he wrote in 1944 for the Grapevine:  

 Thoughts for the week:

 Saturday speaker link: Nell Wing, Bill W.'s secretary: