BGuthrie Photos: MA -- Great Barrington -- Guthrie Center at the Old Trinity Church (Alice's Restaurant Church)

MA -- Great Barrington -- Guthrie Center at the Old Trinity Church (Alice's Restaurant Church):

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Description of Subject Matter: Stockbridge is located in the Berkshire Mountains on the western edge of Massachusetts. It's a little town of 2,400 souls which looks a lot like a village that the illustrator Norman Rockwell would paint. That's not entirely coincidental because he lived and died here.

I'd already seen his artwork when they came to the Corcoran Art Gallery here in Washington DC so I didn't try to see it again. (Personally, though, just thinking of Norman Rockwell makes me feel warm and fuzzy.) For me, though, Stockbridge meant something else that's not even listed in the AAA guide. This is thanks to the song "Alice's Restaurant" by Arlo Guthrie. (He's no relation but he has a great last name!)

If you remember the song... well, to call it a song is generous. It's one chorus inserted in a 20-minute discussion of Arlo's experiences trashing up the Berkshire Mountains and how that allowed him to avoid serving in Vietnam. The complete lyrics can be found on http://www.arlo.net/lyrics/alices.shtml but here are some relevant passages:

This song is called Alice's Restaurant, and it's about Alice, and the restaurant, but Alice's Restaurant is not the name of the restaurant, that's just the name of the song, and that's why I called the song Alice's Restaurant.

You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant
You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant
Walk right in it's around the back
Just a half a mile from the railroad track
You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant

Now it all started two Thanksgivings ago, was on - two years ago on Thanksgiving, when my friend and I went up to visit Alice at the restaurant, but Alice doesn't live in the restaurant, she lives in the church nearby the restaurant, in the bell-tower, with her husband Ray and Fasha the dog. And livin' in the bell tower like that, they got a lot of room downstairs where the pews used to be in. Havin' all that room, seein' as how they took out all the pews, they decided that ...More...
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2002 photos: Image quality isn't going to be very good for the first half of this year because these are scans of prints. Equipment this year: I took the plunge and bought my first digital camera. It was August 2002 and I bought an Epson PhotoPC 3100Z. While a nice camera, it had some quirks and bumping it would result in it being totally out of focus until you manually shut it down -- something which blurred almost every picture I took in New York City one day. Trips this year: Two weeks out west, one week in New York, and one week down south. This was the year I started the photo web site. It started to come together in August 2002, mostly as a way of allowing me to keep track of the pictures I was taking. It took awhile to add some basic bells and whistles (logging didn't get added until November) but it's been pretty much like it started out since then. Archaic but working, and free!
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