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Revisiting "On The Road": All Tangled Up

More than 30 years ago, CBS News' Charles Kuralt went "On The Road" and filed a host of now-legendary dispatches. Some were everyday stories about individuals, and others remarkable tales of achievement or struggle.

One day, Kuralt stopped his RV in Darwin, Minn., where he met a man who compulsively saved, for years and years, twine. Call it compulsive collecting, but even the twine-ball's creator, Francis Johnson, said to be a collector of something so mundane: "you don't have to be crazy, but it helps."

Check out Kuralt's original report here - and watch the Evening News tonight to see how our Steve Hartman went back and traced Kuralt's steps ... and to see if Francis Johnson's string theory holds up today.
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