Alice's restaurant was a small restaurant that Alice Brock and her husband Ray Brock opened together. The restaurant was named after Alice I'm thinking because it was her restaurant. The restaurant was about 6 miles from where Alice and her husband Ray lived. It was in the small town of Stockbridg,Massachusetts. Alice and her husband lived in a former church in Great Barrington,Massachusetts where they held Thanksgiving dinners. Alice Brock was a teacher that worked in a small school not far from where she lived.

Arlo Guthrie was one of Alice's students. Arlo was also a singer. Arlo and his friend Richard Robbins went to visit Alice and her husband Ray during Thanksgiving. They wanted to help Alice and Ray clean up their home so they offered to take the trash to the dump. Arlo and Richard loaded the trash into their VW microbus and headed for the dump but came to find it closed for Thanksgiving. They drove around until they found a place to dump the trash. They came to a large hill with trash already at the bottom as they fingered one pile of trash would be better than two so they dump it there. On November 25,1965 the two boys was arrested by Officer William Obanhein for illegally dumping. Alice bailed the boys out of jail after having a word or two with Officer Obanhein or from Arlo's song Officer Obie. Two days later the two boys pleaded guilty and where fined $50 and had to pick up all of the trash.

After all this happened Arlo was called up for the draft. Arlo spent all day at the induction center in New York and at the end of the day he was sent to Group W bench. Arlo sat there for awhile then was called back to talk to an officer. The officer told Arlo that because of his criminal record that he was not fit to be in the army. This really upset Arlo, he couldn't believe he was not allowed to fight in the army for being a litterbug. This is when Arlo made up the song Alice's Restaurant. The song tells people about the day Arlo and his friend where arrested for dumping the trash over the hill and how Alice was their friend who had them over for Thanksgiving dinner and how they just wanted to help out. The song goes on to tell people how Arlo was called up for the draft and how they believe he was not fit ti fight in the war. That they seen him as the seen mother rapers and murders.

I really have no clue why Mr. Neuburger was name the blog Alice's Restaurant. It could be because we are going to read Alice in the Wonderland for our first book in class. Mr. Neuburger could have named it Alice's Restaurant because he liked the story and found that it would be a good name for our blog. It also could be that you can find anything in Alice's restaurant; you could say that about your blog. We have so many different people in our class that not everyone is going to think alike. There is going to be many different points of views that you will hardly find any the same. By naming your blog Alice's Restaurant after the song it tells you that you can find many different views and many different things all in one place. This is way I believe Mr. Neuburger named our blog Alice's Restaurant.

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