The hippie-era icon who inspired folk singer Arlo Guthrie’s epic, Berkshire's based anti-establishment song “Alice’s Restaurant” has died. Alice Brock took her final breath at a hospice home in Wellfleet on Thursday
The hippie-era icon who inspired folk singer Arlo Guthrie’s epic, anti-establishment song “Alice’s Restaurant” has died. Alice Brock suffered from health issues, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and passed away at a hospice home in Wellfleet on Thursday. She was 83.
In a 2020 interview, Brock recounted how she became “the living-legend, Earth Mother, Alice of 'Alice's Restaurant.'” In the '60s she was chef-owner of The Back Room in the Berkshires. But an unfortunate trash dumping incident that originatedShe was busy preparing a Thanksgiving feast in her house — which was a deconsecrated church, just like in the song — and Guthrie wanted to help out by disposing a heap of garbage.
Guthrie landed in the local jail, but Brock said she bailed him out with $50 worth of quarters and foreign coins. She resented director Arthur’s Penn’s Hollywood depiction of a hippie’s life. “So not true,” she said in 2020. But Brock did write a spin-off cookbook that she filled with her favorite dishes, dry wit and illustrations. A tour promoting the book and movie gave her a higher profile, but also made Brock feel exploited. “Everybody had me locked into that character,” she said. “And that was not my character at all.
After leaving the Berkshires about four decades ago, Brock made a new life for herself as an artist and children’s book author in Provincetown“I was starstruck,” Lamot recalled in 2020. “I would hear about all the stuff she did for all the people she took in, and just the food she made for everybody, and her generosity.”
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