Roscoe Pippin to Move Truck

LINDEN, AL—In a surprise move no less remarkable than the delivery of a lost letter after thirty years in the dead letter office, Roscoe Pippin has apparently decided to try to crank the Ford pickup truck he parked in his front yard six feet from the side walk in 1978 and move it around back. The curiosity of area residents was stirred recently when Pippin was seen with the hood propped up, a gas can and a new Wal-Mart battery sitting on the tail gate of the rusted-out eye sore, which according to his neighbors has become an area landmark and source of irritation since the disco era. Pippin told The Vidalia he really couldn’t remember why he had parked the truck in his front yard back then, and added, “If it’ll crank I’ll go on and move it to the back if I can get that tree out”, referring to a four inch diameter twenty foot tall water oak growing through a large rust hole in the truck bed. As Pippin poked at one of the flat tires with his screw driver, he took a drag on his cigarette and joked, "I guess it’s gone make it hard to tell people looking for the new high school where the turn is on High Dairy Road when I move the old buggy.”—Clement P. Tate