Categories: StorySkid Row in Detroit Skid row or skid road is a shabby urban area with cheap taverns, dive bars, dilapidated hotels frequented by lowlifes, alcoholics, and itinerants. The term skid…
Categories: StoryThe Co-founder of the Un-named Fellowship Bob Smith was born and raised in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, to Susan A. Holbrook and Walter Perrin Smith. His parents took him to religious…
Categories: StoryBill Griffith Wilson Founder of Alcoholics Anonymous Bill Griffith Wilson was born on November 26, 1895, in East Dorset, Vermont. His parents were Emily (née Griffith) and Gilman Barrows Wilson, …
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The Oxford Group And Detroit Connection The Oxford Group was a Christian organization founded by American Christian missionary Dr. Frank Buchman. Buchman was an American Lutheran minister of Swiss descent…
Categories: StoryDr. Benjamin Rush’s Inquiry into the Effects of Ardent Spirits on the Human Mind and Body catalogues the consequence of chronic drunkenness and argues that this condition is a disease that…
Categories: StoryAlcoholism, Fort Detroit & the Michigan Territory Alcoholism has always been a scourge in Detroit. One of the earliest articles we had found in a Detroit newspaper was in the Detroit…
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