Alice Brock

**Alice May Brock** (an haife ta ashekarar (1941)watan Fabrairu 28 kuma ya mutu a ranar 21 ga Nuwamba, 2024, Yar wasan kwaikwayo Ba'amurke ce, marubucin lokaci-lokaci kuma tsohon mai gyaran fuska. Mazaunan Massachusetts don dukan rayuwarta ta girma, Brock ta mallaki kuma tana sarrafa gidajen abinci uku a cikin Berkshires - **The Back Room**, **Take-Out Alice** da **Alice's a Avaloch** - a jere tsakanin 1965 da 1979. Na farko daga cikin waɗannan ya zama abin ƙarfafawa ga waƙar Arlo Guthrie mai suna " Alice's Restaurant ", wanda hakan ya zaburar da fim ɗin 1969 mai suna iri ɗaya .

## Kuruciya ta

An haifi Brock **Alice May Pelkey**  a Brooklyn, New York City, ga mahaifiyar ta ta kasance Bayahudiya kuma uwar  Al'ummai . Iyalin Pelkey sun kasance masu kyakkyawan aiki da dabi'u kuma galibi suna ciyar da lokacin bazara a lardin Provincetown, Massachuset,. Duk iyayenta sunkasance ba mabiya   addini bane su, ko da yake mahaifiyarta Bayahudiya ce a al'adance kuma ita da kanta sheda wa jama'a ta bayyana a matsayin Bayahude ; Daga baya ta bada labarin rayuwar ta da danginta a matsayin rashin aiki  kuma mahaifinta a matsayin mai cin zarafi, lura da cewa har yanzu tana son iyayenta amma tana samun wahalar faranta musu rai. Bayan ta yi karatu a makarantar gyara, ta halarci Kwalejin Sarah Lawrence . Brock ta bayyana kanta a matsayin mai fafutuka a siyasance tun tana matashiya.

Bayan ta kammala karatun ta a  jami'a, ta yi a kankanin  lokaci a ƙauyen Greenwich, inda a cikin 1962, ta sanu, sannan ta auri Ray Brock, ma'aikacin katako, malamin shago, kuma flipper daga Virginia wanda ke tsakiyar 30s a lokacin. , sama da shekaru goma da  girmi man Alice. A shekara ta nada1964, sun sami aiki tare a Makarantar Stockbridge a Stockbridge, Massachusetts, tare da Ray yana aiki a matsayin malamin shago da Alice a matsayin ma'aikacin ɗakin karatu. Tare da amincewa daga mahaifiyarta, sun sayi cocin da aka tsarkake a cikin Great Barrington, wanda ma'auratan suka canza zuwa wurin zama don kansu da wurin taron abokai da masu ra'ayin bohemians . Daga baya  ta bayyana zabin coci ga kungiyar ta a matsayin wani nau'i na sacrilege, ta yi amfani da alamar al'ada da kafa addini don ci gaba da dabi'un ta. A cikin 1991, an sake dawo da ginin da aka daɗe ba a kula da shi ba kuma aka canza shi zuwa Cibiyar Guthrie a Old Trinity Church, cibiyar bautar addinai da wurin yin aiki.

### Abinda ya faru
Ɗaya daga cikin ɗaliban Brocks a Makarantar Stockbridge ya kasance Arlo Guthrie, a lokacin mai son gandun daji, dashen rabin Yahudawa na New York kamar Brock, da kuma ɗan gunkin  da mutane ke fama da rashin lafiya a lokacin Woody Guthrie . Lokacin da Arlo Guthrie ya bar Kwalejin Rocky Mountain a Montana don hutun godiya a watan Nuwamba 1965, ya zauna a mazaunin Brocks don abincin dare na godiya na shekara-shekara., Guthrie da abokinsa Richard Robbins sun amince su zubar da dattin da suka taru a cikin cocin, ba tare da sanin cewa an rufe juji na gida don hutu ba. Guthrie da abokinsa sun zubar da kayansu a kan wani dutse a kan kadarorin masu zaman kansu. Lokacin da aka sanar da shugaban ‘yan sanda na Stockbridge William "Obie" Obanhein game da zubar da jini ba bisa ka'ida ba, ya kama Guthrie da abokinsa, kuma ya tsare su a gidan yari. Alice ta bada belinsu bayan awanni da yawa; fushin da ta yi game da lamarin ya kusan sa Obanhein ya kama ta. (Brock ya kasance abokan taka da Obanhein, yana la'akari da shi "mutum mai dadi sosai, kuma (...) dan sanda mai kyau." A ƙarshe, an ci tarar Guthrie da Robbins kaɗan kuma sun karɓi datti a ƙarshen mako.

## Gun cin abinci na farko

Mahaifiyarta ta shawo kan Brock don buɗe gidan abinci, wanda ya gaza siyan a matsayin wata dama ga 'yarta ta zama ta tsaya da kafan ta mai cin gashin kanta. Ta riga ta kasance Mai son yiwa kawayen ta hidima tana yi  a cocin girki da yawa, abin da ya bata mata rai.  Alice ta sayi filin kasuwanci mara komai a bayan jere na kantuna a Amurkanbsp;7 a Stockbridge kuma ya canza shi zuwa ɗakin Baya a cikin 1965, jim kaɗan kafin ziyarar Guthrie. Akwai wasu sabani akan daidai lokacin da aka bude dakin Baya; Brock zai yi iƙirarin a cikin 2008 cewa bai kasance ba sai bayan da ya faru, amma waƙar Guthrie game da ita tana nufin an riga an buɗe gidan abincin a lokacin. A wani zaman da Guthrie ya yi da Brocks a lokacin ziyararsa, shi, Ray da Alice sun fara tsara tushen abin da zai zama rabin farko na "Alice's Restaurant". (Rabi na biyu na waƙar zai zo daga baya.  

Brock za ta yi tunani a kan buɗewar wannan gidan abincin yayin da aka fara rashin jituwa tsakaninta da mijinta. A cewarta, saboda a halin yanzu tana rayuwarta a matsayin mace mai zaman kanta kuma tana buƙatar San farin nata dan yin aiki a gidan abinci, Ray ba shi da ikon kula da ita ta hanyar kuɗi - kafin wannan kawai ya ba ta ɗan ƙaramin alawus - ne wanda ya ƙara tashin hankali a tsakanin. biyu.  Alice kuma . Sabanin abin da aka yi a cikin fim din game da Gidan Baya, Alice ta ce ta kasance da aminci ga Ray a duk lokacin auren kuma ba ta da lalata; ba ta kwana da Guthrie ba, alal misali. Guthrie ya kuma tabbatar da cewa Alice ta kasance da ta aminci ga Ray a cikin mawaƙa na ƙarshe na waƙar, lura da cewa abokin ciniki zai iya "sami duk abin da kuke so ... ban da Alice" a gidan cin abinci, kuma wanda ake tuhuma, Richard Robbins, ya bayyana ra'ayin Alice. samun al'amura a matsayin "cikakken bijimin." 

Brock ya rufe gidan abincin a watan Afrilu 1966  kuma ya koma yankin Boston tare da abokai. Za ta koma Great Barrington kuma ta yi sulhu da Ray jim kadan bayan haka, ta kammala tare da babban bikin aure na hippie da aka rubuta a cikin fim din, amma su biyun za su sake saki na dindindin a 1968. Ray ya koma kasar su Virginia  ya mutu sakamakon ya ya gamuda ciwon bugun  zuciya,( 1979). Alice ba ta da yara tare da shi, kuma bata sakeyin aure ba bayan rabuwar su da ita. sun yin sharhi a cikin 2020 cewa tana da ra'ayi marar kyau game da dangin nukiliya saboda kaɗan daga cikin waɗanda ta san suna da lafiya, rayuwar dangi.

## Fim
Brock ya yarda zai shiga cikin samar da fim din *Alice's Restaurant*, ciki har da shiga cikin tallace-tallace da kuma yin bayyanai a cikin fim din kanta; Ba kamar Guthrie da sauran mutane da yawa a cikin labarin ba, ta ƙi tayin nuna kanta a cikin fim , kuma 'yar wasan kwaikwayo Pat Quinn ta taka rawar Alice. Brock ba ta sami kusan kome ba daga aikinta na talla kuma ya damu bayan ya koyi cewa Arthur Penn, darektane na a fim din kuma  marubucin, ya shigar da kayan  a cikin labarin da ta ji "ba ta bayyana  ba, ta kunyata ni, kuma ta sanya ni cikin wani abu." Ta musanta cewa "Ba na kwana da kowa a duniya, alal misali - ba Arlo Guthrie ba! Kuma ban san wanda ya harbi tabar heroin ba." Bugu da ƙari, nasarar ban mamaki na waƙar da fim ɗin ya sa Brock ya zama mashahurin da ba ya so.   Ta bayyana fim din a matsayin tushen shaharar da ba a so  kuma ta bayyana a baya jim kadan bayan fitowar ta cewa yakamata ta yi duk abin da za ta iya don hana shirya fim din. Tun daga watan Yuni 1970, tana zaune ita kaɗai a gidan haya a Lenox, Massachusetts, tare da shirya zama a can na dogon lokaci.

A matsayin hanyar rama Brock, ɗaya daga cikin masu shirya fim ɗin ya shirya mata ta rubuta littafin dafa abinci, *The Alice's Restaurant Cookbook*, wanda aka buga a 1969. Daga baya Brock ya yarda cewa yawancin girke-girken da aka nuna ita da mahaifiyarta ne suka kirkiro su musamman don littafin, maimakon sun samo asali a gidan abinci, kuma ba a gwada su ba kafin a buga su; ta mai da shi falsafar rayuwa don yin gwaji akai-akai tare da sabbin girke-girke. Littafin ya tabbatar da nasara a tsaka-tsaki kuma ya bi ta cikin bugu huɗu.