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Alice Brock, Made Famous By ‘Alice’s Restaurant,’ Passes Away
PROVINCETOWN (WBSM) — Just one week before the holiday for which she had become synonymous, the eponymous Alice in “Alice’s Restaurant” has passed away.
Alice Brock died in her home of Provincetown on Thursday, November 21, at the age of 83.
Brock was working as a librarian at the Stockbridge School in Stockbridge, Massachusetts along with her husband Ray, a shop teacher, when future folk singer Arlo Guthrie (son of legendary folk singer Woody Guthrie) attended the school as a student.
Later, as a college student, he spent Thanksgiving 1965 with the Brocks in their home, a former church in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
Guthrie’s 1967 song – formally titled “Alice’s Restaurant Massacre” – recounted the events of that Thanksgiving, including Guthrie and his friend Rick Robbins cleaning out the collected garbage from the church th
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When Alice Brock was born on 10 April 1902, in Carroll, Georgia, United States, her father, George R Brock, was 32 and her mother, Florence A Cole, was 28. She married Deuel Monroe Kugler about 1922. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in District 1006, Carroll, Georgia, United States for about 30 years. She died on 4 May 1986, in Stockbridge, Henry, Georgia, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Fairview Memorial Gardens, Stockbridge, Henry, Georgia, United States.
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Alice's Restaurant
Talking blues song bygd Arlo Guthrie
This article fryst vatten about the song. For the skiva, see Alice's Restaurant (album). For the film, see Alice's Restaurant (film).
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