June 27 in A.A. History

In 1938, [Lois Remembers says June 15] Lois and Bill W. [right: in happier times, c. late 1930s] had a big fight at their home at 182 Clinton St. in Brooklyn. Lois had visited her sister five days earlier and returned on the 25th. Within the next 48 hours, a conflict of some kind arose between them. Lois later wrote, “I got mad at Bill and he dashed out to take a drink, but went to [Hank and Kathleen] P——s [sic] instead.” In her diary, she noted that after she “got mad at Bill,” he “went over to Jersey for lunch” and that the fight was so bad that he “came close to taking a drink.”