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J: We would study the book together, and make
notes, and... over a period of years we were able to piece together the
information we'll be talking about tonight on the Big Book. Some weekends
I would travel to Charlie's farm on the hill. As he said, and we would
spend the weekend studying the Big Book. This went on from about 1973 to
1977. We studied the book together for almost four years.
We would have these little studies together in the
hotel rooms at conferences. Sometimes people would come in and sit in the
meetings. They would ask--when they found out what we we're doing--they'd say: can we sit in? I said well, it
don't make any difference. I remember the first guy that came in. Charlie
asked me would it be alright.
I said, I guess it's alright. Over the period of
these four years, finally the hotel room would be full at each conference
on Saturday evening when we would study the Big Book.
There was a man in one of those studies and... he said, that is good! I
would like for my group to hear this. He said, would you all come to my
group and put it on for the
weekend. I remember--we were talking about it tonight--at that time I
said, well I guess so if anyone wants to listen to it, but I can't imagine
nobody'll want to listen to this all weekend.
What we did--we went to Lawton, Oklahoma, and there
were thirty-five people there that night we did the Big Book study. This
is where the Lawton tapes were made.
