Alice Brock, who has died aged 83, was the owner of a restaurant immortalised by Arlo Guthrie in his 1967 mock-heroic ballad Alice’s Restaurant (or to give it its full title Alice’s Restaurant ...

In the film, Guthrie decides to head east after being bullied out of the Montana town where he was attending college, but in fact, he was still enrolled during Thanksgiving 1965. He lamented that ...

WASHINGTON, Mass. — After 57 years, they had a Thanksgiving dinner that couldn’t be beat. And this time, they did not have to take out the trash. Folk singing legend Arlo Guthrie had a sentimental ...

On Thanksgiving Day in 1965, two young guests visiting Alice Brock and her husband, Ray, repaid the hospitality by helping clean up an old church that the couple had converted into their home in ...

To the editor: The story of “Alice’s Restaurant," told by our favorite storyteller and native son Arlo Guthrie, is widely known through his iconic 1967 song and the subsequent 1969 movie of the same ...