He on a permanant tour and will be everywhere so I think a camera and a few short words with him might be good here.
Why would TRAINS publish an interview with the author of "Alice's Restaurant"? More to the point, who even cares?
I guessing the "City of New Orleans" song connection.Kind of tenuous, compared to Rod Stewart who is an active model railroader.
CSSHEGEWISCH Why would TRAINS publish an interview with the author of "Alice's Restaurant"? More to the point, who even cares?
That settles it!
Our family ski house, built in 1968 was in Great Barrington, MA, not far from Stockbridge. Alice Brock's restaurant was actually called "The Village Restaurant" and remember the famous Norman Rockwell painting of Stockbridge at Christmas? The restaurant is on the side of one of the buildings in the painting. Up a narrow alley, actually.
And, yes, it is one-half mile from the New Haven line where service was discontinued in 1971. I recall them taking the "NH" sign down from the end of the platfrom facing Route 7. Service was a Budd car from Grand Central and I never did get to ride it.
The church mentioned in the song is in neaby Housatonic and at the time was a sort an uneasy meeting place for Alice's friends, the hippies and her husband Ray's biker friends.
How about an interview with Steve Goodman? That would be a REAL scoop.
Tom
Hobo’s Lullabye
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J72hq9kLyUQ
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