On Dec 1, 2020, at 6:01 PM, Bob S <rstonebraker212@...> wrote:

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I understand that the first meeting in NYC met at several locations”

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182 Clinton Street, Brooklyn Hts, NY

Then at;

Hank Parkhurst’s house in NJ

Then at;

Bob and Marguarite ?Volentine’s house – also in NJ

Also, at Bet Taylor’s house at interim

Then at Steinway Hall.? ?

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Question: Were these four meeting locations considered the First AA Group, albeit with different locations”

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If so, would that make the Akron meetings at T, Henry and Clarace Williams house; then Dr Bob’s house; then Kings School be considered the second AA group?

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Or is there a better configuration of order of sequence?

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Thanks in advance.

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Bob S

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of william schaberg
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2020 11:15 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AAHistoryLovers] Sept 39 meetings??

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Gene...

These were not so much “new” meetings as extensions of what had been going on already in NY/NJ AA.

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Bill and Lois had to vacate their Brooklyn home on April 26, 1939 and they were basically homeless for the next two years. Without the “home base” at 182 Clinton Street, meetings moved to Hank Parkhurst’s house in Montclair and then – when Hank and Kathleen first split up in June, 1939 – to Bob and Marguarite Volentine’s house – also in New Jersey.

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There are several references in Lois’s 1939 diary to Sunday meetings at the Parkhurst’s house and to Tuesday meetings in New York City – which seemed to have been held, at first, in Bert Taylor’s apartment on 72^nd Street and then, shortly after that (because of the size of the group?), at Steinway Hall in mid-town.

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NOTE that Lois’ count included wives who regularly attended meetings with their husbands in those days. ?

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Bob S