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Izzy Bleckman was driving the van and Larry Gianneschi was fussing with the coffeepot when they saw a man standing on a highway overpass with a homemade banner draped over the side. They called back to their boss, CBS News Correspondent Charles Kuralt, that they had spotted a potential story for his On the Road series. With the briefest glance at his watch and a map showing their route that day-a 200-mile round trip from Portland, Ore., up to the woods outside Onalaska, Wash.-Kuralt agreed to turn around and find out what the man was doing...
...three men were not indulging a frivolous curiosity: for 15 years, on and off, Kuralt and his crew (usually Cameraman Bleckman and Soundman Gianneschi) have taken a casual, eyes-open-to-life ramble, through every part of every state, in search of stories. On the Road reports have graced several CBS news programs, and they will be a centerpiece of a prime-time series, The American Parade, anchored by Kuralt, that premieres on Tuesday, March 27 (8 p.m., E.S.T...
...show, a magazine series, "will be resolutely American, with no foreign reporting," says Kuralt, "and celebratory in tone. We do not expect to find any scandals or scoundrels." Segments this week include whimsical essays by Kuralt, political humor by Art Buchwald, a report by Correspondent Bill Kurtis asking whether Muhammad Ali is punch-drunk, and a story by Correspondent Andrew Lack about a boy with a malady that his parents diagnosed when doctors could not. Plus, of course, an On the Road about a Missouri man who writes down the names of everyone he has ever met. The show...
...traditional standards, Kuralt's stories often are not news at all. They are authentic, uplifting Americana-folksy, but never cute or dismissive. He looks for people, sometimes whole communities, who have offbeat pursuits or experiences, and he takes them seriously. He seeks "stories that confirm that this is a remarkable country." Over the years, Kuralt has profiled an Iowa farmer who built a yacht in his barnyard, a retired West Virginia coal miner who sculpts statuary in coal, and the arcane Florida ritual of "worm grunting," catching bait with the use of wooden stakes and truck springs. Some...
...Kuralt's official destination that day was a one-man steam sawmill outside Onalaska, owned and operated by Gene Frase, 70, a laconic, down-to-earth man who turns downright poetic when he talks about his conflicting passions: the sweetly efficient steam engine and the lost stands of tall trees that the mill engines turned into lumber. The next day, Kuralt interviewed senior Elephant Keeper Roger Henneous at the Washington Park Zoo. In both cases, much of the filming had already been done by another crew before Kuralt arrived on the scene. His schedule these days, which also includes...