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Volume 3, Issue 4
October 8-10, 2004
Chattanooga, Tennessee
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801B. North Maney Ave.
Murfreesboro, Tennessee
37130
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How do you know where to go if you don't know where you've been?
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Our Purpose
Area 64 Alcoholics Anonymous Archives
In 1957 Bill Wilson said,".. We are trying to build up extensive records which will be of value to a future historian... It is highly important that there can be no substantial distortion... We want to keep on enlarging on this idea for the sake of the full length history to come..."
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Phone:615-895-5225
Email:
daggerrose@area64tnarchives.org
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Visit Your Archives Website @
http://area64tnarchives.org
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We Trust in Infinite God Rather Than Our Finite Selves
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Tapes.
What to do with them. We have hundreds of tapes. What should we do? Lets make duplicates. Lets copy them on to compact disk (cd). Lets rewind them all at least once a year. Never should we fast forward, for this stretches the tape. Nor should we just let sit for long periods of time without rewinding. This causes irreparable damage and lots of bleed over and background noise. Okay then lets transcribe every tape. Huh! Whew! It is still suggested that all of the most important tapes or those that are nearing a state of loosing the lead to be transcribed. A transcribed tape can be protected on paper for 150 years.
Collecting Oral Histories
What should we concentrate on in our Area or District. Well Archives is all about collecting AA History in your Area. What better way to collect Local AA History is there than Taping the Old Timers of AA. There are many helping guidelines out there that prompts you to ask certain questions the person being taped. My personal experience has been very rewarding. I contacted a few of the older members and made arrangements to get their oral history. This is a very humbling twelfth step experience. I have found that when you get ready to tape someone, you should think about a few things. Telephones, pagers, alarm clocks, weak batteries in smoke detectors, hourly chimes on watches. Believe me if it can happen it will happen. Other folks sitting in on these wonderful sessions wiggling around, sneezing. The list goes on. Get the idea? Try to use a little common sense here and it will make for a very rewarding tape. I have found that it doesn't take much effort to get the older members to talk about their experience in AA. One thing that is noted in most of the guidelines is that we are not collecting drunkalogs. We are collecting AA History. Remember that is suggested to get release forms that give your Archives permission to handle the tapes as requested by the person giving the oral history. Anonymity is always to be respected. If the talk has many last names, then this tape should be of a classified category. We don't have the right to allow just anyone to hear such tapes. We are charged as Archivists or Archives Chairpersons to Protect The Anonymity at the level of press radio and film.
http://www.area64tnarchives.org/taping_guidelines.htm
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Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
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