The True Story Behind "Alice's

The True Story Behind "Alice's Restaurant"

Now, after 40 years, Alice breaks her silence, with Char Priolo of WOMR-FM in Provincetown. Eric Williams reports in the Cape Cod Times, here: "Behind the counter at Alice's"

" ..."This was our first Thanksgiving in the church, and we invited everybody," said Brock. "It was wonderful. We had it in the main part of the church. I think the table was set up on the altar."

One of the guests was Arlo Guthrie, then 18. The Brocks met Guthrie when they were on the staff of a private boarding school, where Guthrie had been a student.

Before dinner, Brock asked Guthrie to get rid of some trash that was clogging up the church.

"This was not garbage," said Brock. "This was not coffee grounds and rotten eggs. This was building debris. Old pieces of wood and empty bags of plaster and insulation. It was not stinky garbage. We did not live with stinky garbage."

Guthrie and company loaded up the trash in a Volkswagen microbus and headed for the local dump. Not surprisingly, it was closed for Thanksgiving. This is where the trouble started..."

If any of this means anything to you, go to the Times to read the whole thing. But don't wait long, my experience is that the Times doesn't leave stories up long.