You might think "The Dukes of Hazzard" is all about the car, the beautiful, blazin' orange 1969 Dodge Charger dubbed the General Lee. Well, you'd be right, basically. But if you think the show is all about the car, then you might think most of the fans are male. Not so much. Besides me (!), there are plenty of other female fans of the classic TV series. And there might even be a female or two that owns her own General Lee!
It seems only appropriate that I continue my posts on the 2008 DukesFest -- and all that entails -- in chronological order. So ... if you follow from last week's pre-DukesFest coverage of Covington, Georgia's town square from Wednesday and Thursday, then we can oh-so easily move on to last Friday, when so many "Dukes of Hazzard" fans who were in town for DukesFest were roaming the Covington and Conyers countryside, viewing the many filming sites for the show's first five episodes.
One of those fans was Andrea Melchiori of Michigan, above, in her General Lee, which she jokingly calls the "Chick Lee" because it's the sole known General Lee owned by a single female (there are a couple Lees out there owned by married females whose husbands help them out with this whole thing). This was Andrea's very first trip to Hot-lanta and the lovely Covington. She has been taking her Lee, which she's owned for about a year, to smaller shows in Michigan.
First, the Chick Lee headed to the town square, where I even got to pose with it at the famous courthouse!
A stop at A Touch of Country on the town square was certainly in order, and here Andrea poses with some of the "Dukes" memorabilia on display in the back of the shop.
The Chick Lee also got to pose for pictures at the railroad tracks on Elm Street in downtown Covington, site of a very well-known "Dukes" car jump, before it was on to this well-loved landmark, the original Boar's Nest building on Flat Rock Road. The building is white with purple trim nowadays, and it's gated off from pesky curious fans like that frisky Chick Lee!
Andrea was interviewed at DukesFest by the film crew working on the event's official DVD, and she was also photographed by the official photographer for the event. All in a weekend's fun!
Photos by Billie Rae Bates / BRBTV.com, except for the courthouse photo by Andrea
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