A direction home: Bob Dylan album returned 48 years late

Sara Phillips, a branch manager at Heights Libraries in Ohio, holds the Bob Dylan album (Heights Libraries via AP)

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.

Howard Simon sent the album along with a letter to Heights Libraries apologising for his tardiness, according to a news release from the library system outside Cleveland.