May 25 in A.A. History

In 1925, Bill and Lois W. were 5½ weeks into their motorcycle trip investigating publicly held companies across the eastern U.S. At what the Burnham family called “The Camp,” located at Lake Emerald outside East Dorset, Vermont, Lois’s entry in her Diary of Two Motorcycle Hobos described how “Two tragedies occurred in the insect and bird life today.” With “astonishment,” she watched a dragonfly emerge “from the ugly brown beetle shell” she had found. As it flew away, a phoebe bird “darted down and gobbled it up!” Lois “sat down and cried. Later [that] afternoon one of the babies of the same phoebe bird fell out of the nest and was killed instantly” [right: phoebe eating a dragonfly]
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In 1962, the three-day Central New York Area Conference [left: commemorative coin] began at the Watson Homestead Conference and Retreat Center [right] in Painted Post, New York.

In 1989, the four-day 32nd International Conference of Young People in Alcoholics Anonymous (ICYPAA) opened at the Salt Lake City Marriott and Salt Palace [left: aerial view of Salt Palace (left) and Marriott (right)] in Utah, drawing an attendance of 4,000. The theme of the conference was “Carry the Message.”