The truth of the song is stretched out, but it still happened—even if Arlo Guthrie wrote him and Alice (remember, it’s a song about Alice) and Robbins into a predicament no one else lived through.

Someone told the police. And events were set in motion for what became folk singer Arlo Guthrie’s autobiographical anthem of wartime protest, hippie fellowship and a belly-filling Thanksgiving ...

Artist and restaurateur Alice Brock who was the inspiration behind Arlo Guthrie’s Alice’s Restaurant Massacre passed away at 83. The news of her death was shared by Guthrie’s Facebook page ...

Alice Brock, the “Alice” in folk singer Arlo Guthrie’s Thanksgiving classic, “Alice’s Restaurant,” died Thursday at 83. Her death was first announced by Guthrie through Rising Son ...

NEW YORK — Alice Brock, whose Massachusetts-based eatery helped inspire Arlo Guthrie’s deadpan Thanksgiving standard, “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree,” has died at age 83. Her death ...

The hippie-era icon who inspired folk singer Arlo Guthrie’s epic, anti-establishment song “Alice’s Restaurant” has died. Alice Brock suffered from health issues, including chronic ...

By The Associated Press Alice Brock, whose Massachusetts-based eatery helped inspire Arlo Guthrie’s deadpan Thanksgiving standard, “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree,” has died. She was 83.

And she remained friends with folksinger Arlo Guthrie, who based his rambling, 18½-minute “Alice’s Restaurant” on his 1965 arrest for littering. Guthrie had dined that year at a ...

Boston Globe / Boston Globe via Getty Images The hippie-era icon who inspired folk singer Arlo Guthrie’s epic, anti-establishment song “Alice’s Restaurant” has died. Alice Brock suffered ...

Alice Brock, whose Massachusetts-based eatery helped inspire Arlo Guthrie’s deadpan Thanksgiving standard, “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree,” has died at age 83. Her death, just a week before ...