I was looking through some Al-Anon and Alcoholics Anonymous sites this morning and found the following page; The Elrick B. Davis Articles From The Cleveland Plain Dealer October - November 1939.

I thought this was pretty interesting; a series of articles written by the Plain Dealer  months after Alcoholics Anonymous was born born in Cleveland. The articles were written as 7 part series.

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Part 1  http://www.eskimo.com/~burked/plndlr/plndlr1.html

Part 2 http://www.eskimo.com/~burked/plndlr/plndlr2.html

Part 3 http://www.eskimo.com/~burked/plndlr/plndlr3.html

Part 4 http://www.eskimo.com/~burked/plndlr/plndlr4.html

Part 5 http://www.eskimo.com/~burked/plndlr/plndlr5.html

Part 6 http://www.eskimo.com/~burked/plndlr/plndlr6.html

Part 7 http://www.eskimo.com/~burked/plndlr/plndlr7.html

It is interesting to see the style of writing from this time period. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of an alcoholic referred to as a “rummie”. I also don’t think I’ve heard of an alcoholic in recovery refer to themselves as “cured”. In today’s Alcoholics Anonymous and Al-Anon, you won’t see “Religion” as the articles state but these are Spiritual programs.

Regardless, these were pretty interesting articles that allow you to take a step back to the beginning of the recovery movement that has helped countless numbers of alcoholics, addicts and thoses who love them.

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