A.A. In The Time of Coronavirus In light of the current circumstances I’d like to take a detour from our regular selection of history from the archives. This month the archives presents you with an opportunity to participate and add your voice to these uncharted events in AA history.

This month we start a new feature to the archives monthly posting: ‘Harbor Area Stories.’ From time to time we will present a personal story of A.A.’s from the Harbor Area; reflections on their life and attending meetings in the Harbor Area. This month is the story of Phil S. who celebrated 39 years of sobriety last December.

This month we take a look at the story of Fritz Mayo. New York’s AA #3?

Let us never fear needed change. Certainly, we have to discriminate between changes for the worse and changes for the better. But once a need becomes clearly apparent in an individual, in a group or A.A as a whole, it has long since been found out that we cannot stand still and look the other way. The essence of all […]

For this month’s selection, as we approach A.A. 85th anniversary year, I thought we’d look back to Bill Wilson’s Christmas greeting on the occasion of A.A.’s 10-year anniversary in 1944.

This month, as a salute to the 64th Harbor Area Central Office Traditions Banquet, we take a look at the original, or ‘long form’ text of the Twelve Traditions. They were first published in the May, 1946 issue of the Grapevine. In 1949 at the suggestion of Earl T, founder of AA in Chicago, they were shortened to the version […]