Editing Arlo Guthrie (section)

===Legacy===
[[File:Arlo Guthrie-Bardentreffen 2010.JPG|thumb|Guthrie in 2010 in [[Nuremberg]], Germany]]
Like his father, Woody Guthrie, he often sings songs of protest against social injustice.  He collaborated with poet [[Adrian Mitchell]] to tell the story of Chilean folk singer and activist [[Víctor Jara]] in song.  He regularly performed with folk musician Pete Seeger, one of his father's longtime partners.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Reineke |first1=Hank |title=Arlo Guthrie: the Warner/Reprise years |date=2014 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |location=Lanham, Md. |pages=159–161 |oclc=883647214 |url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/883647214 |access-date=4 August 2022}}</ref> [[Ramblin' Jack Elliott]], who had lived for two years in the Guthries' home before Arlo left for boarding school, had absorbed Woody's style perhaps better than anyone; Arlo has been said to have credited Elliott for passing it along to him.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Reineke |first1=Hank |title=Ramblin' Jack Elliott: The Never-Ending Highway |date=2010 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |location=Lanham, Md. |page=183 |oclc=663885711 |url=http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/663885711 |access-date=4 August 2022}}</ref>

In 1991, Guthrie bought the church that had served as Alice and Ray Brock's former home in [[Great Barrington, Massachusetts|Great Barrington]], Massachusetts, and converted it to the Guthrie Center, an interfaith meeting place that serves people of all religions.  The center provides weekly free lunches in the community and support for families living with HIV/AIDS, as well as other life-threatening illnesses. It also hosts a summertime concert series and Guthrie does six or seven fund raising shows there every year. There are several annual events such as the Walk-A-Thon to Cure Huntington's Disease and a "Thanksgiving Dinner That Can't Be Beat" for families, friends, doctors and scientists who live and work with Huntington's disease.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/11/AR2005081100624.html |newspaper=The Washington Post |first=Richard |last=Harrington |title=Arlo Guthrie's Storied Career |date=August 12, 2005 |access-date=October 24, 2012}}</ref>

One of the title characters in the comic strip ''[[Arlo and Janis]]'' is named after Guthrie. Cartoonist [[Jimmy Johnson (cartoonist)|Jimmy Johnson]] noted he was inspired by a friend who resembled Guthrie to name one of his characters Arlo.<ref name="Barbie">[https://books.google.com/books?id=BPWpLufrz_MC&dq=arlo+%26+janis&pg=PA90 Johnson, Rheta ''Enchanted Evening Barbie and the Second Coming: A Memoir''], NewSouth Books, 2010 {{ISBN|978-1-58838-250-4}} p. 90</ref> English commentator [[Arlo White]] was named after Guthrie.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/American-dream-reality-Arlo-White-Derby-voice/story-20468618-detail/story.html |title=Derby football reporter Arlo White: How American dream became a reality |accessdate=25 November 2014 |last=Gallone |first=Jill |date=21 January 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140122174221/http://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/American-dream-reality-Arlo-White-Derby-voice/story-20468618-detail/story.html |archive-date=22 January 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Guthrie was the subject of a 2012 unauthorized biography, ''Arlo Guthrie: The Warner Reprise Years'', by Hank Reineke, for which Guthrie refused to cooperate. After finding Reineke's work to be "better than (he) imagined it" and feeling it had suffered from Guthrie's non-participation in it, he agreed to assist Reineke in the sequel, ''Rising Son: The Life and Music of Arlo Guthrie'', which is being released in 2023.<ref name=2023interview/> Guthrie has expressed no interest in writing any memoir or tell-all.<ref name=2023interview/>