Posts Tagged ‘alcoholics anonymous’

October Fundraiser Cocktail Party

David will be holding a Fun-raising event in October. Here’s the details as best as I know them:

Location: Three Stallion Inn, Stock Farm Road, Randolph
Date: Oct 18, 2006
Time: 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Tickets: $15

Description:
Casual meet the candidate gathering with appetizers, sweets, and coffee. Door prizes including a framed and signed print of an original watercolor landscape by renowned Vermont artist Bunny Harvey. Ms. Harvey will be on hand in support of Dave and to sign the winner’s print.

About Bunny Harvey:
Bunny Harvey has been a part time resident of Randolph Center since 1949 when her parents first came to Vermont. A Rome Prize winner, Bunny has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally, with works in public and private collections. She is represented exclusively by Berry-Hill Galleries, in NYC and has taught painting at Wellesley College in Massachusetts for thirty years. She now lives and paints in Tunbridge, where the natural landscape of Vermont has been the starting point for many of her works. One critic has described these paintings as attempts ?to discover the essence of the place….with a dreamlike quality that make them seem more like landscapes of the mind, rather than actual places..?

For additional information call: 802-728-6598
http://www.davidatkinson.org

There are a variety of programs for alcoholics ranging from secular to non-secular, health based to cold-turkey; today is the birthday of the organization that started the self-help movement AA. What I found interesting was cofounder Bill Wilson of AA was raised in Vermont.

How Bill Wilson Invented Alcoholics Anonymous

Seventy-one years ago today, outside the Akron, Ohio, city hospital, Dr. Robert Smith swigged from a bottle of beer. He and his friend Bill Wilson had just mapped out a new way to cure alcoholism, and they were sure it would work. Smith only needed one last drink to prevent hand tremors on the job. It sounds like the recidivist?s lame excuse, but the beer did turn out to be Smith?s last. The date was June 10, 1935?now known as the official birthday of Alcoholics Anonymous.

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By the time he got a call from an old drinking buddy in 1934, Wilson had, in AA parlance, hit bottom. In 1905, when he was only 10, his father had left his mother; his maternal grandmother raised him and his sister in Vermont.

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