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So if I interview Arlo Guthrie will you publish it>

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Posted by wanswheel on Friday, March 6, 2015 11:20 AM
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Posted by ACY Tom on Friday, March 6, 2015 11:03 AM

How about an interview with Steve Goodman?  That would be a REAL scoop.

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Posted by 54light15 on Friday, March 6, 2015 10:30 AM

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.

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Posted by garyla on Friday, March 6, 2015 9:04 AM

CSSHEGEWISCH

Why would TRAINS publish an interview with the author of "Alice's Restaurant"?  More to the point, who even cares?

 

Well, the restaurant was "just a half a mile from the railroad track," wasn't it?

That settles it!  Smile

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Posted by chutton01 on Thursday, March 5, 2015 2:18 PM

I guessing the "City of New Orleans" song connection.

Kind of tenuous, compared to Rod Stewart who is an active model railroader.

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Posted by CSSHEGEWISCH on Thursday, March 5, 2015 1:58 PM

Why would TRAINS publish an interview with the author of "Alice's Restaurant"?  More to the point, who even cares?

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So if I interview Arlo Guthrie will you publish it>
Posted by trackrat888 on Thursday, March 5, 2015 12:44 PM

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.

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