Lee (who remains anonymous) talks about leaving his abusive grandmother at 14, being on the lam with his father, a criminal, and then running away after being adopted by a nice Mormon family. He describes his years of alcoholism, petty crime and jail time, both in and out of the armed forces. He then describes the people and organizations that helped him get clean and sober, including Alcoholics Anonymous of Grand Junction and the Ft. Logan Mental Health Center. He discusses his many subsequent years of sobriety, his work as an artist for sign shops and as a counselor at Ft. Logan, his foundation of an AA for young people in Grand Junction, Colorado, and his advice for young people dealing with addiction. This recording is made available via signed release by the Mesa County Oral History Project, a collaboration of Mesa County Libraries and the Museums of Western Colorado.
