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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data W., Bill. Bill W.: my first 40 years/Bill W. p. cm. Transcribed from an audiotape made by Bill W. ISBN 1-56838-373-8 1. W., Bill. 2. AlcoholicsBiography. 3. Alcoholics Anonymous. I. Title: My first forty years. II. Title. HV5032.W19 A3 2000 362.292'86'092dc21 [B] 99-087571
Editor's note Minor editing has been done in accordance with Hazelden editorial style and grammatical usage.
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Cover design by David Spohn Interior design by Nora Koch/Gravel Pit Publications Typesetting by Nora Koch/Gravel Pit Publications
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Contents
Foreword
vii
Bill W.: My First 40 Years
1
Afterword
161
Additional Recommended Reading
173
Appendixes
Appendix A: "The Healer: Bill W." from Time Magazine
177
Appendix B: The Strange Obsession
185
Appendix C: Letter from Bill Wilson to Lois Wilson
201
Appendix D: Alcoholics Anonymous Prospectus
205
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Foreword
Bill W., Bill Wilson, William Griffith Wilson, was born on November 26, 1895, in the small Vermont town of East Dorset. East Dorset, from its beginning, had a different flavor from the town of Dorset. It was a gritty, blue-collar town. The marble quarry owners lived in Dorset, the workers in East Dorset.
Both of the small Dorset towns are approximately six miles north of the larger city of Manchester. Manchester, to this day, caters to well-to-do vacationers and families with second homes in the area. The Equinox hotel has been in operation since 1769, featuring The British School of Falconry and the Land Rover Driving School. The Orvis Company, a fly-fishing and sporting-goods store established in 1856, is down the road from the Equinox.
Part of Bill Wilson's social heritage was a rowdy band of expert riflemen and woodsmen, the Green Mountain Boys, led by Ethan Allen. In 1775, during the Revolutionary War, this group was recognized and sanctioned as an independent military force by the Continental Army. Their headquarters was in Dorset. Their legacy to the people of Vermont was an unabashedly defiant attitude toward
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authority. Vermonters have a tendency toward being closed mouth, frugal, stringent in public displays of affection, and republican.
The railroad opened in East Dorset in 1851, and those who stopped over stayed at the Barrows House across from the train station. By the end of the nineteenth century, the Barrows House was renamed the Wilson House and was operated by "the widow Wilson." Her grandson, Bill Wilson, was born in a little room behind the bar. During Prohibition, the inn thrived as a stopping-off place for those who could afford to travel to Canada to drink, as it was halfway between New York and Montreal. In those days, the inn catered to the likes of Charles Lindbergh and Myrna Loy.
Near collapse in 1987, the Wilson House was purchased by Ozzie Lepper, who formed a foundation to restore and preserve it, not as a museum but as a living memorial. Now restored as a bed-and-breakfast inn, the Wilson House has guest rooms and a large room for Twelve Step meeting and seminars. Across the green, in front of the church, is the Griffith House where Bill spent part of his childhood with his maternal grandparents. This house has also been restored with a large library and is open for visitors.
Bill and his wife, Lois, are buried in the East Dorset Cemetery, south of East Dorset, just over a mile from the Wilson house. A well-worn path leads to their resting places, which are marked by simple headstones.
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