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”I’ll do anything, anything at all. If there be a Great Physician, I’ll call on him” Bill W.: My First Forty Years (MN: Hazelden, 2000), page 145.

“For sure I’d been born again” My First Forty Years, page 147.

“Henrietta, the Lord has been so wonderful to me, curing me of this terrible disease, that I just want to keep talking about it and telling people” Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th ed, 2001, page 191.

“I wanted to know what this was that worked s many wonders, and hanging over the mantel was a picture of Gethsemane and Bill [Wilson] pointed to it and said, “There it is,” which didn’t make much sense to me” Alcoholics Anonymous, 3rd ed., 1975, pages 215-217.

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• August 2008 Inspirations for Spiritual Recovery from Alcoholism/Addictions at St. Johnsbury, Vermont. A precursor to the national recovery month in September.

August 8, 1879: Birth on Summer Street of Robert Holbrook Smith (A.A.’s cofounder Dr. Bob).

August 9, 2008: St. Johnsbury Summerfest and new St. Johnsbury Historic Walking Tour including:

Dr. Bob’s birthplace on Summer Street

Dr. Bob’s family church, North Congregational Church, St. Johnsbury, on Main Street--with the new Dr. Bob Core Library in the North Congregational Church

August 12, 2008: Senator Leahy will cut the ribbon for the newly-renovated Welcome Center

• What Is Available in St. Johnsbury for the Recovery Community as Recovery Month Approaches

A New Book about Dr. Bob and St. Johnsbury: Dr. Bob of Alcoholics Anonymous: His Excellent Training in the Good Book as a Youngster in Vermont by Dick B. and Ken B.

An Earlier Book: Dr. Bob and His Library: A Major Spiritual Source by Dick B.

Free copies given to the earliest visitors at the Dr. Bob Core Library, North Congregational Church

Free access to early A.A. spiritual history and roots in Vermont: books and other historically-important materials are available at the Dr. Bob Core Library at North Congregational Church

Free access to many books and other materials at the North Congregational Church, the Athenaeum, the Academy, and the Fairbanks Museum which show St. Johnsbury’s impact on the Smith family:

The Judge Walter Smith Family, and the enormous Fairbanks family influences.
North Congregational Church worship, Sunday School, prayer meetings, Bible study.
The Christian Endeavor Society, conversion, Bible, prayer meetings, and Quiet Hour events.
The “Great Awakening” of 1875, revivals, conversions, and their impact on the community.
The YMCA lay evangelists, revivals, town-wide union church events, and YMCA building.
St. Johnsbury Academy—its curriculum, chapel, Bible study, church service requirements,
and Congregationalist and Fairbanks family emphasis.

• In a few choice phrases, St. Johnsbury’s Dr. Bob told the recovery world

“Your Heavenly Father will never let you down!”
“We believed the answer to all our problems was in the Good Book.”
“We got the basic ideas from our study of the Good Book.”
“I had refreshed my memory of the Good Book, and I had had excellent training in that as a youngster.”
“Cultivate the habit of prayer. Read the Bible.”

• May this August opportunity usher in recovery visitors to see how and why early A.A. succeeded!


Richard G. Burns, J.D.
(pen name Dick B.)
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A Special Notice of Historical Events Important to AAs
In St. Johnsbury, Vermont, August 9 and 12, 2008

Two events of importance to the A.A., Al-Anon, Recovery, substance abuse prevention, and treatment communities will take place in St. Johnsbury, Vermont in August of 2008. The first will occur during the St. Johnsbury, Vermont, Summerfest on Saturday, August 9. Vermont Governor Jim Douglas will launch the new Walking Tour of Historic St. Johnsbury, Vermont.
The second event will be held at the St. Johnsbury Welcome Center Grand Opening. And Senator Patrick Leahy will be at the ribbon-cutting ceremony which begins at 10:00 A.M.

Why important to recovery people? Because there is a renewed interest, effort, and research work going on in St. Johnsbury involving the training of A.A. Cofounder Robert Holbrook Smith, M.D., known in A.A. as Dr. Bob. While thousands have streamed to Akron, Ohio, in June each year, to visit Dr. Bob’s Home and celebrate A.A. Founders Day, scarcely a handful have known about, seen, or visited the equally important youthful surroundings of Bob in Vermont.

On August 9th, the Town of St. Johnsbury will, during its 4th Annual Summerfest, foster a walking tour of the St. Johnsbury Historic Districts, including the downtown area and Main Street, in order to promote their unique heritage. Stops along the way of particular significance to AAs will be Dr. Bob’s Birthplace and Boyhood Home on Summer Street, and the new Dr. Bob Core Library just established on Main Street at North Congregational Church, St. Johnsbury. But that’s not all for the recovery-minded. They will see, be able to visit, and study at North Congregational Church, the Athenaeum (town library), and St. Johnsbury Academy where Dr. Bob and his entire family were involved in the court, the schools, YMCA, Christian Endeavor Society, libraries, missions, Sunday school, and church. Almost none of these important training grounds have been the subject of recovery community visits.

The frosting on the cake will come with the trains, shops, Tea Time, Rock Around the Block, old-fashioned boxed supper social, music at the Academy, Shakespeare on Stowe Green, and the remarkable architectural splendor of St. Johnsbury buildings. And to demonstrate the ongoing importance of the St. Johnsbury scene, the August 12th St. Johnsbury Welcome Center will introduce visitors to Town resources, with a town BBQ, hamburgers, hot dogs, music, and entertainment.

For those of us in recovery fellowships, treatment work, counseling, correctional, non-profit information and prevention activity, this will be an unusual chance to see the lovely Green Mountain setting where Dr. Bob grew up, received his excellent spiritual training, and returned through his life’s end to the town of his youth, religious training, and educational successes..

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