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BY GERALD OCHS Rappahannock News Special Writer
Despite the bone-melting heat this past Fourth of July weekend, Cooter’s, on Lee Highway in Sperryville, hosted thousands to their Grand Opening celebration.
Ben Jones and his wife Alma have apparently put together the right formula to attract out-of-town visitors to their modest “Dukes of Hazzard” museum and gift shop.
While the Washington Fourth of July celebration was suffering the effects of the afternoon heat, 3,000 or so Cooter’s fans were wandering through the gift shop, listening to live blue grass music, eyeballing the General Lee or the antique cars, tasting barbecued chicken with “Cooter sauce” or waiting in line for the ever-present Cooter (Ben Jones) to autograph a paper fan or photograph.
Conservative estimates put the weekend total at some 6,000 visitors, and Alma I reports that they ran out of products to sell on a number of occasions.
Visitors came from . Culpeper, Luray and other spots in the Shenandoah
95.6%