The Berkshire Eagle

'Blind justice': How a Berkshire County judge became a character in Arlo Guthrie's 'Alice's Restaurant Massacree'

In 1965, a blind judge in Lee handed down a $25 fine to two teenagers who dumped trash down a hillside — a case immortalized ...
OPB

The real Alice of Arlo Guthrie’s 'Alice’s Restaurant' dies at 83

Boston Globe / Boston Globe via Getty Images 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 ...
The Boston Globe

Arlo Guthrie announces that Alice Brock of ‘Alice’s Restaurant’ fame has died

Alice Brock, the “Alice” in folk singer Arlo Guthrie’s Thanksgiving classic, “Alice’s Restaurant,” died Thursday at 83. Her death was first announced by Guthrie through Rising Son Records, his Great ...
People

Alice Brock, Who Helped Inspire Arlo Guthrie's Classic 'Alice's Restaurant,' Dies at 83

Arlo Guthrie's 18-minute long, 1967 folk song "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" was inspired by his 1965 Thanksgiving meal with Alice Brock in Massachusetts Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via Getty ...
The Boston Globe

Excepting Alice

Thanksgiving doesn’t really have carols — except for “Alice’s Restaurant,” the quirky Arlo Guthrie song whose namesake, Alice Brock, died last week. Thanksgiving has generally resisted the consumerism ...