After Alice's Restaurant

One of our family Thanksgiving traditions is to listen to Arlo Guthries' Alice's Restaurant as we go to Dolores' mother's house for dinner. The Boston Globe today has a good article about Alice Brock who today makes her living in Provincetown.

Alice Brock, the Alice of ''Alice's Restaurant'' - the name of the Arlo Guthrie song (1966), the Arthur Penn movie (1969), and her own second restaurant, in Stockbridge. She lives and works as an artist in Provincetown, where she has a home full of books and art that she has collected over the years.

Read about the "real" Alice here.

Holiday tradition

On the way to Dolores' mother's house for the family gathering and dinner on Thanksgiving, we played Arlo Guthries' Alice's Restaurant which we used to be able to catch on one or more radio stations but since we managed to get our CD of Arlo's greatest hits, we are no longer dependent upon the radio waves to continue this tradition.

In case, you would like to review the lyrics, you can find them here.

Is listening to Alice's Restaurant one of your Thanksgiving traditions?