From nmehl@ccat.sas.upenn.edu Fri Jun 25 03:27:18 1993
From: nmehl@ccat.sas.upenn.edu (Nathan J. Mehl)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Looking for Alice's Restaurant
Date: 24 Jun 93 15:27:44 GMT
Reply-To: nmehl@ccat.sas.upenn.edu
Organization: Nihilists for a Better Tomorrow
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In article <20aj9q$c5u@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM writes:
>
>In article <930622#SHAZBOT#121431_nmehl@ccat.sas.upenn.edu> nmehl@ccat.sas.upenn.edu writes:
>
>> Wrong coast.  "Alice's Restaurant" takes place in the isolated (very, very
>> isolated - trust me, I went to college there) hamlet of Great Barrington,
>> Massachusetts, where Guthrie lives to this day.  (The restaurant's still
>> there, too.)
>But in the song, Arlo mentions the location as Stockbridge.

Ah - a matter of some local debate. :)  Yes, it's Stockbridge that's mentioned
in the song, but the cliff that Guthrie & Co. threw the trash off of is over
the line into Gt. Barrington.  Moreover, the separation of the two is largely
one of legal tradition; cf. Cambridge/Boston, Detroit/Windsor, San 
Francisco/Berkley...  (Although in this case it's more like Great
Barrington/Stockbridge/Pittsfield/Housatonic/Alford/foo/bar/baz...)


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