Alice’s Restaurant' also was the title of his million-selling debut album and the basis of a movie and cookbook of the same name.

Arlo Guthrie’s antiwar staple “Alice’s Restaurant” was inspired by a Thanksgiving Day visit to her diner in western Massachusetts.

Arlo Guthrie sings "Amazing Grace" to his new bride Jackie Hyde, at their wedding ceremony on Guthrie's Washington, Mass. farm on Oct. 9, 1969. Alice Brock of "Alice's Restaurant" is second from the right in the background (AP Photo/Steve Starr) AP The woman who inspired one of the most famous Thanksgiving songs of all time is dead at age 83.