My response to the first assignment

What is Alice's Restaurant?

Alice’s Restaurant was a song based on a place and an event that took place there on one thanks giving. Arlo Guthrie wrote and sang the song. The restaurant was located six miles away from a church that Alice M. Brock bought with money her mother gave her. Alice and her husband, Ray, lived in that church. Alice was a painter and designer, while Ray was an architect and wood worker. They both worked at the academy from which Arlo Guthrie had graduated. She only had the restaurant for a year before she and her husband got divorced.

Is it a real or fictional place?

Alice’s Restaurant is a real place. It was six miles away from the church in which Alice lived and half a mile away from the train tracks. Alice Brock used to own it , but now it is Theresa’s Stockbridge Café.

Who is Alice?

Alice’s full name is Alice M. Brock. She owned the restaurant that Arlo Guthrie sings of in the song. She owns an art gallery and studio in Provincetown, Massachusetts, Where she now lives. She also drew the pictures in the book “Mooses Come Walking”, which was written by Arlo Guthrie.

Why name a restaurant after her?

The Restaurant, of course, was named after her because she owned it.

Who is Arlo Guthrie?

Arlo Guthrie is an American folk singer who has a tendency to sing about the various problem he has with our government. He was most famous for the song “Alice’s Restaurant”. He is a Brooklyn, New York Native. His father is composer and folk singer Woody Guthrie. In 1965 he graduated from the Stockbridge School of Massachusetts, where he met Alice and her husband, Ray. He went to Rocky Mountain College for a little while. Arlo Guthrie has spent his life following in the footsteps of his father as a singer, song writer, and political activist. Lastly, he won the Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience award on September 26 of 1992.

Why would he write a song about Alice's restaurant?

I think he wrote the song because what happened was ridiculous. He should he been able to join the army in spite of the fact that he once littered. He thought it was stupid that you had to be a modern day saint to be able to go kill innocent people.

What is the song about?

Alice's Restaurant is about a man not being able to join the army because of a former arrest. Arlo Guthrie sings about how he and a friend did his friend Alice a Thanks Giving favor by taking her trash to the dump for her. When they got to the dump the found out it was closed and looked for another place to dump the trash. They ended up just dumping it off with another pile of litter. The next day they got a call from the police department about it. They thought they were just going to have to pick up the trash after going down to the police depart, but when they got there they were immediately arrested. Alice bailed them out that night. When they went to court the justice was blind and couldn't see the evidence being held against them, so they just had to pick the trash up and pay a fifty dollar fine. Then the time for him to report to the draft board came. When he got there he told them that all he wanted to do was kill people. They said he was perfect for the job, then asked him if he had ever been arrested. He then confessed to being a litterbug and was told to sit on the w bench. After waiting for a little while he was denied entrance into the army.

Why would the song inspire Mr. N to name our class blog after it?

I think he named our class blog after this song and event because he also think that it’s ridiculous to not be able to go fight for your country in a war because you’re a convicted litterer.