Quietly nestled in the hills of Bedford Hills and Katonah, Stepping Stones is where Bill and Lois Wilson, co-founders of Alcoholics Anonymous and Al-Anon, respectively, lived the last half of their lives and produced many of their most important contributions to society.

Bill Wilson co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous, one of the most significant social and spiritual movements of recent times, while still living in Brooklyn in 1935.  He and his wife Lois fell upon the house known as Stepping Stones when a woman, Helen Griffith offered it to them in 1940.  They moved here in 1941, when Bedford was still quite rural. 

Bill Wilson was named one of the most important people of the 20th Century by Time and Life magazines, and the house is on the State and National Registers of Historic Places and the NYS Women's Heritage Trail.

Lois Wilson co-founded Al-Anon in the library at Stepping Stones; the self help group for family members of alcoholicsm.

Stepping Stones operates today as an historic house museum and shares the story of hope for the recovery from alcoholism, in the individual and the family, as it is embodied in the lives and home of Bill and Lois Wilson.

Stepping Stones is open for tours Monday-Saturday at 1pm with a reservation and all other times by appointment.  For more information, visit the website or call (914) 232-4822.