House of AA founder a draw for members

Published: August 3, 2007, 11:48 am

BEDFORD HILLS, N.Y. - At least once a year, Bill T. gathers up a few of his fellow Alcoholics Anonymous members and makes a pilgrimage from Florida to honor those who saved him from a life of drunkenness. The 56-year-old stopped drinking in 1990 and he likes to visit the former home of the co-founder of AA, Bill Wilson, and his wife, Lois. “I like to come up here because it carries the message,” Bill T. said during a visit in July to the brown-shingled Dutch colonial. “There’s a connectedness.” Bill T. can sit at the kitchen table where in 1934 Wilson sat and drank gin with pineapple juice as a newly sober friend sparked his quest for a way out of alcoholism. He can see the desk, marred by cigarette burns, where Wilson later wrote “Alcoholics Anonymous,” better known as “The Big Book,” and set out the 12 steps and other principles that have helped millions. AA is an informal society of recovering alcoholics who help one another

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