The End of the Road

摘要

On a bitter january morning in 1974, Charles Kuralt and his CBS crew were setting up on a remote hilltop west of Dubuque, Iowa. They were there to do an "On the Road" segment on farmer Bill Bodisch, who hoped to sail his 58-foot homemade yacht around the world. While the three crew members arranged their equipment, Kuralt, stirring his coffee with a butcher knife, traded yarns with Bodisch. "Y'know, you really can't find a hick town anymore," said Kuralt, who was then 39—and not at all happy that American places were becoming less distinct. "People see television, and they read good newspapers," he told Bodisch. "Once, when Harry Reasoner was still with CBS, we traveled to his old Iowa home at Humboldt.