The Boston Globe editorial page has a short item on the Guthrie Syrup issue.
It is the second item down at the link below.

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editor ... hort_fuse/

I really don't see why Arlo couldn't have his syrup be the state syrup, it's quite clever to have thought of doing that.

Family Legacy review in the Arizona Daily Star:

http://regulus2.azstarnet.com/blogs/planettucson/3730/

The Springfield Republican newspaper Monday, May 7, 2007 has a brief editorial comment on the Guthrie Syrup Bill.
http://www.masslive.com/republican/stor ... xml&coll=1

Darn.........I just like to look at the lady on the container.

The new tour announcement is at eMedia

kurt...

Another Alice like incident: (I came across this online in some news items)

We's so sorry to hear about this Ar. Do know you have our support & prayers...

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/ ... ?track=rss

Folk singer Arlo Guthrie accused of letting part-time house become public nuisance

Unmaintained home leads to a hearing

By Henry A. Stephens
Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers
Posted June 26 2007

Like a scene from Alice's Restaurant, his 1967 hit, folk singer Arlo Guthrie is once again accused by public officials of violating property laws.

But while police in Massachusetts 40 years ago handcuffed and arrested him on illegal dumping charges, this time the part-time Indian River County resident is facing a mellower set of complaints.

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Guthrie, who turns 60 next month, is accused of letting his North Indian River Drive house turn into an unsafe building and a public nuisance — and not having a building permit to fix it.

"It's obviously not being maintained, and since the [2004] storms it has deteriorated even more," said Virginia Shelhamer, one of Guthrie's neighbors.

Guthrie, whose has concerts scheduled through May, was due for a hearing Monday before the county's Code Enforcement Board. But he missed the gig, and neither he nor his representatives could be reached later for comment.

Code Enforcement Officer Betty Davis said Guthrie didn't return the receipt attached to the notice of the hearing. So without proof that he got the notice, she said, the board chose to continue his case until next month.

People who fail to comply with code enforcement orders, such as hauling debris from a yard by a given date, face fines of $100 a day.

Guthrie's fame took off in 1967, when he sang Alice's Restaurant, describing his arrest in Massachusetts on littering charges, the subsequent court appearance — with a $50 fine and orders to clean up the garbage — and rejection by the draft.

Guthrie's home on the Indian River Lagoon was pummeled by hurricanes Frances and Jeanne, Davis said, leaving it open to the elements and needing a new roof.

And that was ironic, Shelhamer said. She recalled Guthrie replacing his roof before the hurricanes hit.

"He got a new roof weeks before the 2004 storms," she said. "That was done before the hurricanes."

She recalled Guthrie being in a race with the hurricane season to get his new roof up.

But the new roof didn't make it through the hurricanes. Recently Guthrie representatives have started to replace the roof, Davis said, but never finished the job.

And neighbors complained recently about loose tar paper and shingles they say could become missiles in a storm. Shelhamer said she wasn't among the ones complaining.

Davis had pictures of the roof problems — though not the "27 8-by-10 color glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one" that Guthrie had sung about.

The code board in May found Guthrie in violation of starting a new roof without a building permit, keeping an unsafe building, maintaining a public nuisance and allowing a recreational vehicle to be used illegally. He was to have secured the house and removed the recreational vehicle by last week.

Guthrie has listed his home for sale. Davis said a prospective buyer was staying on the property in the recreational vehicle until recently.

Thanks for posting that, Cheryl. It seems the folkslinger has run afoul of the good ole boys in Code Enforcement. Once they get you on their radar in this permit-happy state, you're a goner.

I was wondering what adg did or was going to do with his house here. Maybe he could organize a group of us Sunshine State blunderites to go clean up/fix up his house. I'd volunteer! Wonder if he ever considered donating the house to the River Fund, an organization I know he is close to.


mikey

Glad to share it. Looks like according to the article he is trying to sell it. I guess he needs the dough to pay for what repairs he had to do for it. So sorry he had all this happen to him. Vibes to you Arlo, dear...

The latest issue of "The Rolling Stone" magazine titled "1967 The Summer of Love" on the newstands now has a listing of the top 50 albums of that year.
Needless to say Arlo's, Alice's Restaurant is on the list with a comment that "Arlo came out with another version 10 years later, four minutes longer and four minutes funnier."

In the Sunday issue of the Richmond, VA Times Dispatch is an article on the University of Richmonds Modlin Center which lists their concert schedule. The show Arlo will we doing there nexdt Feb was listed & mentioned in it...

Guthrie's Intimate Songs Evoke Reverence From Fans
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article. ... rumb=state

Vietnam vets hear from one the Army wouldn't take
http://www.sj-r.com/News/stories/12347.asp

The tulsa article states that arlo hasn't toured solo in over 40 years, but that isn't true, now is it? I mean, it was probably within the past 15-20 years or so that I saw him solo at the Suffolk County 'Y' if my memory serves me well...

No, it's not true--we saw him solo at Poor David's Pub in Dallas in the 80s. But everything the article said about Saturday night was right on. The set was incredible, and during it, you could have heard a pin drop in that big, soggy field full of otherwise fully vocal people. He led with a new song that was funny and Blundery, and there was another new song about a man walking backward in Austin that was--and I usually hate the term but it fits--awesome. I didn't keep a full setlist but someone else (not Jay) did, so maybe he'll post it.