This month the Harbor Area Archives collection features “A Brief History of the Harbor Area Exchange Bulletin” by former editor, Neil Estes. I hope you enjoy it. *The Harbor Light* is always looking for new subscribers and contributors.

This month’s offering comprises a short history of AA in the Mid-Southern California Area written by Ellery S. in 1988 for the General Service Archives Committee in New York.

This month we pay homage to Dr. Bob with a transcript of his last major talk, given in Detroit, Michigan in 1948.

The earliest days of Alcoholics Anonymous in Los Angeles reprinted from a pamphlet issued by the Southern California Archives Committee in 1986.

This month’s offering from the Archives should serve as an example of what such a history might look like. It details the founding of the Mother Group, the original AA group in Long Beach.

In 1987, Flossie Lewis, sometimes called the “mother of AA” in Long Beach, spoke with Elizabeth S. about her life and the early days of AA in the Harbor Area. A lifelong teetotaler, Flossie and her husband, Clarence, who began his recovery from alcoholism here in Long Beach, were mainstays of the early recovery community in the Harbor Area. Their […]