AA in New Hampshire: the district's own history page
The history piece: how the fellowship took root in the state.
An independent field guide
The literature table, annotated piece by piece.
An independent field guide to how an AA district works: the meeting, the table, the service ladder and the Seacoast New Hampshire rooms, piece by piece.
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The rooms of District 15 country
The geography piece: which towns the district actually covered.
From the area assembly to the Conference
The top of the ladder: how the group's vote reaches the Conference.
The DCM and what a district is for
The middle rung: the office that keeps a district coherent.
The GSR, the group's only officer outward
The first rung of the ladder: the job every group fills.
The chips in the basket
The table's smallest pieces: what each color marks.
The readings that open the hour
The five short texts a newcomer hears in the first ten minutes, annotated.
The full index of pieces
14 pieces- SEA-003The hotline and the people who answer itThe Seacoast
- SEA-002AA in New Hampshire: the district's own history pageThe Seacoast
- SEA-001The rooms of District 15 countryThe Seacoast
- LAD-003From the area assembly to the ConferenceThe Ladder
- LAD-002The DCM and what a district is forThe Ladder
- LAD-001The GSR, the group's only officer outwardThe Ladder
- TBL-004The chips in the basketThe Table
- TBL-003The readings that open the hourThe Table
- TBL-002The Big Book and the two sets of twelveThe Table
- TBL-001The meeting listThe Table
- MTG-004Open, closed and beginners' meetingsThe Meeting
- MTG-003How to find a room in District 15 countryThe Meeting
- MTG-002The first meeting, piece by pieceThe Meeting
- MTG-001What actually happens at a meetingThe Meeting
From other tables
Pieces pinned by other desks, each read before it was pinned here.
The same patience applies to other first visits: a first appointment with a practitioner is also mostly about finding the door and being handed the honest paperwork.
A river town keeps its own charted guide to the town much the way a district keeps its meeting list: walked, dated and numbered. a charted guide to the town
Churches that lend their basements keep their own memory; the congregation's own records often hold the founding date a district forgot to write down.
Service work shares a calendar with civic life; the town festival calendar explains half of why a meeting moves rooms in October.
The district map is also a working map: the same towns hold parishes, diners and a fabrication shop up the road.