Alcoholics Anonymous
History—The Rest of the Story. With Dick B.
©2014 Anonymous. All rights reserved
The Four Videos on the
Enormous Dick B. Resource Library Interview and Talks, June 21, 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. 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 resources were gathered by author
Dick B., historian of A.A., over a decade of years. 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.
This series
is one of four 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—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. 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
