All that stuff in "Alice's Restaurant" really happened. Arlo and his siblings (sister, Nora, and brother, Jaody), were attending my parent's summer arts camp (Indian Hill, in Stockbridge, MA) when the incident that inspired the song occurred. There really was an officer Obie (Bill Obenheim, the local police chief), and an Alice with a restaurant (where, years later, I played many nights after Tanglewood concerts with an excellent jazz quartet). Arlo's mother, Margorie Guthrie, a former Martha Graham dancer, became my mother's best friend that summer, and remained so until she died some years later (Margorie, not my mother).
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