Thanksgiving at “Alice’s Restaurant“

“You can get anything you want at Alice’s Restaurant…”

It was November 2019 when the family and I were headed out for our biennial Branson Thanksgiving family gathering when a simple radio advertisement opened my eyes to a new awkward Thanksgiving tradition.

Heading south on Route 13 highway near Clinton, MO the airwaves called out “Join us Thanksgiving day at noon or 6 pm when we will be airing Arlo Guthrie’s ‘Alice’s Restaraunt Masacreee!’ There was a tone of excitement in this announcement that intrigued my curiosity similar to that feeling you get when your friends are all excitedly talking about something from the past weekend but you have no clue what they are talking about and feel like you have just missed out on something big?

It was something a bit like that.

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