Alice's restaurant is a restaurant that Alice and her husband Ray opened. When they first bought the restaurant called "Back Room Rest" then Alice changed it to name it after her. Alice and her husband ray lived in a church in Great Barringtion, Mass., about six miles from the restaurant which was in Stockbridge, Mass. They bought the church in 1964. They both started to clean the church out with accumulated a lot of garbage. The church was about six miles from the restaurant which was in Stockbridge, Mass.
The whole thing started on Thanksgiving day in 1965, a man by the name of Arlo Guthrie and his friend Richard Robbins were taking the garbage out for there good friend Alice. When they went to dump the trash, the dump was not open because it was a holiday so they left and was looking for another place to dump the garbage, they came across a back road that had a big cliff on it and saw garbage already at the bottom. So of course like any person thinks if one person did it why can't I so they went ahead and through it with the other garbage at the bottom of the cliff. After they did that they went back and ate there Thanksgiving dinner and went to bed. The next day they woke up to call from the police station. With an officer by the name of Officer Obie and he said I found this envelope at the bottom of this garbage pile, that has your name on it is it yours. Arlo said sir I can't lie I did put that envelope at the bottom of the trash.
Who is Alice? Alice is a friend of the song writer Arlo Guthrie, she is the owner of the famous "Alices Restaurant", and she is also a painter and a designer. Why did Arlo write a song about the restaurant? The story I told you in the paragraph before is basically his song in shorter words, I just summed it up. He wrote the song because apparently he thought the crime he committed at Thanksgiving was funny and wanted to tell the world about it. He wrote the song about Alice because the whole event happened at her house if she didn't have the garbage then the would have not been nice enough to try to drop it off, which means that they would have not got caught by the cops and would not have got arrested. This all was happening when the Vietnam War, one of the rules of getting drafted was you could not get into any trouble or have any run in with the laws. Well Guthrie wanted to go to the army and could not and that is the whole real reasoning for the song. He had nothing really better to do.
I think this blog is a really cool idea. It will be a good way to express the way a lot of us feel and will not have to worry about being embarrassed because every one will be expressing themselves. That is a lot of the reason I think Mr. Neuburger named our blog after this song and really it was not even the song but Guthrie was expressing to every one how he felt and made it fun of it and was not afraid to tell his story. That is why I think Mr. Neubuger named our class blog after the song Alice's Restaurant.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%27s_Restaurant