A.A. History Sources
with Dick B.
©2014 Anonymous. All rights reserved
The Four Videos on the
Enormous A.A. History Sources Site with Dick B.: Library Interview and Narration,
June 22, 2014
Our new
website, the videos on it, and the virtually unknown or ignored approximately
30,000 books, articles, manuscripts, letters, pamphlets, and papers covering
the heart of A.A. ideas is now available online, through our website http://aahistorychristianrecovery.com
Free copies
are available to our numerous sustaining supporters. Copies can be purchased online
by other individuals, groups, libraries, conferences, speakers, and leaders at
a very low price.
This is an
announcement that the 30,000 books and other A.A. sources were gathered over a
decade of years by author Dick B., historian of A.A.
They were
placed in a temporary library on Maui. Videographer Steve Glagola of Florida
came to Maui, viewed the extensive library, interviewed Dick B., and then made
videos of Dick speaking about each book or group of books, answering questions
about those resources, and—at long last—setting up a tutorial where AAs and
recovery people and leaders could see and hear the resources explained and made
available online.
This A.A.
History Sources with Dick B. series is one of four inter-related video groups
on Alcoholics Anonymous History—The Rest of the Story. One contains the
introductory classes on A.A. history
that are already in use in various parts of the recovery world. The
second is this series of four A.A. History Sources—presenting the 30,000 item
library and collection by Dick B., almost all of which has been donated free to
the Wilson House in East Dorset Vermont, the Dr. Bob Core Library at North
Congregational Church in St. Johnsbury Vermont, the Shoemaker Room at Calvary
Episcopal Church in Pittsburgh, and St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Akron—as well
as to Ray G., for many years the archivist at Dr. Bob’s Home in Akron.
The third
series will shortly be posted and consists of four videos titled, “Bill W., Dr.
Bob, and the Cure of Alcoholism: The Rest of the Story.
The fourth
will include some 800 photos taken by an
A.A. archivist on our investigative research trips to Maine, Vermont,
Massachusetts, Cleveland, and Akron. And the final, we hope, will be a presentation
of Dick B.’s one hour talk at the Oldtimers meeting in Minneapolis during the
A.A. International Conversion. The topic was the six major roots of A.A.
The
treasures in the first two sets are available for your viewing now. They are
available on our website http://aahistorychristianrecovery.com.
In the ensuing weeks and months, you will find them abundantly discussed on the
Dick B. websites, the Dick B. blogs, Dick B. YouTube presentations, Christian
Recovery Radio, and articles posted and circulated in Dick’s newsletters and
posts on Facebook, Twitter, Tumbler, Linked-in, Pinterest, Hub, In the Rooms,
Christian Recovery Social, A.A. History with Dick B. on Cyber Recovery Social,
Stumble Upon, and others.
We will be
discussing the materials briefly on these outlets for the next several months
as well. And we encourage groups and individuals to obtain the videos, present
them, study them, and discuss them.
For further
information, contact Dick B., PO Box 837, Kihei, HI 96753-0837; 808 874 4876; dickb@dickb.com
Again the
new website is http://aahistorychristianrecovery.com
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