Alice and Ray Brock Alice's Restaurant Massacree
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the alice in song restaurant-owner alice may brock (born c. 1941). in 1964, shortly after graduating sarah lawrence college, alice used $2,000 supplied mother purchase deconsecrated church in great barrington, massachusetts, alice , husband ray brock (c.1928–1979) live. here rather @ restaurant—which came later—where song s thanksgiving dinners held. alice painter , designer, while ray architect , woodworker. both worked @ nearby private academy, music , art-oriented stockbridge school, guthrie (then of queens, new york city neighborhood of howard beach) had graduated. alice brock operated song s titular restaurant short time in 1966 and, after breakup , abortive reconciliation, divorced ray in 1968; went on launch 2 more restaurants (a take-out window in housatonic in 1971 , larger establishment in lenox in late 1970s) before leaving restaurant business in 1979. lives in provincetown, massachusetts, , owned art studio , gallery @ 69 commercial street until closing location in 2016. diagnosed emphysema in mid-1990s. illustrated 2004 children s book mooses come walking, written guthrie, , authored , illustrated another, how massage cat. ray brock, after divorce, moved original home of virginia , died in 1979 of heart attack.
in 1969, random house published alice s restaurant cookbook (isbn 039440100x) featured recipes , hippie wisdom alice brock, photos of alice , guthrie, , publicity stills movie. tear-out record included in book brock , guthrie bantering on 2 tracks, italian-type meatballs , granma s beet jam .
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