Born Alice May Pelkey in New York City, Brock was a lifelong rebel. Her honor was immortalized by Guthrie, who late in “Alice's Restaurant” advised: “You…
Born Alice May Pelkey in New York City , Brock was a lifelong rebel. Her honor was immortalized by Guthrie, who late in “Alice's Restaurant” advised: “You can get anything you want” at Alice's Restaurant, “excepting Alice.”Alice Brock, whose Massachusetts-based eatery helped inspire Arlo Guthrie's deadpan Thanksgiving standard, “Alice's Restaurant Massacree," has died at age 83.
“This coming Thanksgiving will be the first without her,” Guthrie wrote."Alice and I spoke by phone a couple of weeks ago, and she sounded like her old self. We joked around and had a couple of good laughs even though we knew we’d never have another chance to talk together.”Born Alice May Pelkey in New York City, Brock was a lifelong rebel who was a member of Students for a Democratic Society among other organizations.
On Thanksgiving Day, 1965, a simple chore led to Guthrie's arrest, his eventual avoidance of military service during the Vietnam War and a song that has endured as a protest classic and holiday favorite. Guthrie and his friend, Richard Robbins, were helping the Brocks throw out trash, but ended up tossing it down a hill because they couldn't find an open dumpster.
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