He insisted on paying all of us. He's still making payments. Norman Rockwell is the runaway leading industry. His folksy, freckled, fresh-faced Yankees are plastered across every imaginable souvenir around town. At one time or another, he painted practically every building on Main Street.
Many shops try to capitalize on their brush with fame.
If you wander along Main Street, with no agenda, as we did, you learn things. We took a baby bottle break at Theresa's Cafe down a little alleyway off Main Street, lingering over cappuccino and zucchini nut bread. Guthrie was 18 years old in 1965 when he was arrested for littering on Thanksgiving Day 1965 by Stockbridge Police Chief William J. Obanhein. The bust made Guthrie unsuitable for military service and he avoided the draft during the Vietnam War. Arlo has come in a few times.