Thanksgiving at Alice’s Restaurant

New England Legends Podcast

Jeff Belanger

History, Paranormal, Ghosts, Folklore, Places & Travel, Monsters, Society & Culture, Legends, Newengland

4.8 • 951 Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 326 for their Thanksgiving Special, Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger head to Stockbridge, Massachusetts, to the place where a Thanksgiving radio legend was born. An arrest that gave rise to a story that gave birth to an 18-minute song that was made into a movie. Arlo Guthrie came here in 1965 and tossed some trash over a hill. The trash belonged to his friend Alice Brock who owned a restaurant in town. But how much of this masacree song is true?

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0:00.0	Happy Thanksgiving Ray.
0:05.0	Ray. Well, thank you. Happy Thanksgiving to you too, Jeff.
0:07.0	And happy Thanksgiving to you as well.
0:10.0	We appreciate you riding along with Ray and I here on Thanksgiving Day.
0:13.0	Whether you're bound for Grandfather's House, a friend's house, or if you're staying home,
0:17.0	we're grateful you joined us for our Thanksgiving special.
0:20.0	That we are.
0:21.0	So we're driving up Route 7 in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
0:27.0	We just passed the railroad tracks.
0:30.0	Yep, and we're going to make a right, coming up right up here onto Main Street.
0:35.0	All right, got it.
0:36.0	And we should park just over there on the right.
0:39.0	Okay. We're standing in front of the Stockbridge General Store building, which is also the Main Street Cafe.
0:54.4	And Jeff, did you bring your guitar?
0:57.1	I did, Ray.
0:58.4	I feel a song coming on for this Thanksgiving adventure.
1:01.1	Okay, are we busking for our dinner here on Main Street?
1:04.0	No, no, we've come to the location of a restaurant so iconic that the story behind it
1:09.7	launched a story that launched a song, a movie, and a Thanksgiving radio tradition that's been going on for more than half a century now.
1:17.0	I think I know where we are.
1:19.0	Ray, this place wasn't always called Main Street Cafe.
1:22.0	It used to be called the backroom, but the world knows best
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