Howard Simon: Last News

After nearly five decades of blowin’ in the wind, a double Bob Dylan album finally has a direction home: A man living in San Francisco has mailed the vinyl back to an Ohio library 48 years after it was supposed to be returned.

Bob Dylan‘s ‘Self Portrait’ album to an Ohio library 48 years after its due date.Howard Simon took out his copy of the 1970 album from the University Heights library in the spring of 1973, when he was 14 years old.As the library revealed on Instagram, Simon returned his copy this week along with a letter explaining what took him so long.He wrote: “As a recent retiree, I am taking the opportunity to turn my attention to some of the many vignettes of life that by dint of career and family have been neglected these many years.“In that context, I am returning with this letter an overdue item (by my count, approximately 17,480 days overdue as of this writing) that I borrowed from the library in the spring of 1973 when I was 14 and in 8th grade