Old Timer Teddy Black

Theodore Black is a 75 year-old man from Nashville, Tennessee. He drives a light blue 1957 Chevrolet and has fuzzy dice hanging from the rear-view mirror. His house is plain and painted white. Its only notable feature is a silver-plated Clint Eastwood signature door-knocker, a prize he won from a particular strange county fair that rolled into town one summer afternoon so many years ago.

He doesn't have any children, but he often buys discounted bags of candy from the dollar store down the street, which he throws from his car at high speeds. He spends the rest of his time traveling across America. Yet he always seems to be able to come back home to sleep for the night.

~Excerpt from the upcoming book "Theodore Black: The Great American Legend" by Richard P. Whistershin, published by Cripplinghouse Studio Books.