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nice writeup in the Poughkeepsie Journal
https://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com...urant-song-thanksgiving-tradition/8625163002/
That 'Alice' Thanksgiving
That "Alice" Thanksgiving in 1965, Guthrie, 18, and Robbins, 19, had dinner at Alice and Ray's house, in the kitchen, which was in the bottom floor of their deconsecrated church's bell tower.
When Ray needed help cleaning up the large church hall, Guthrie and Robbins loaded up Ray's red VW Microbus with trash — which Robbins contends was not household garbage, but was furniture, scraps of wood and cardboard — and drove in the direction of the town dump, only to find the dump closed for Thanksgiving.
"The bottom line is we were a couple of dumb kids from the city and didn't know anything about dumps because in the city, a garbage truck comes and takes your trash away," Robbins said. "Not to make any excuses, but we just didn't know any better."
Not knowing any better, they dumped the garbage in a makeshift dumping site that Guthrie knew about, near a music summer camp he had attended.
Someone saw. Someone told. And the police came calling. Robbins and Guthrie were arrested and fined $50 and ordered (by a blind judge, really) to pick up all the trash: the stuff they had dumped and the stuff that was there when they dumped the stuff they dumped.
