Jeratt Givens, 12, smiles as he sits in the driver’s seat of a replica General Lee, the Dodge Charger of “Dukes of Hazzard” fame, on Saturday. Givens lost his collection of Dukes of Hazzard memorabilia in the April 27 tornadoes.
TRENTON, Ga. – Jeratt Givens and his family haven’t had a lot to smile about in the last two months.
The April 27 tornadoes splintered their community on County Road 95 in Alabama, killing Jeratt’s great-grandparents and his great-aunt, splintering the family’s mobile home and raking the landscape into a scraggly caricature of what once had been home.
Even their iron skillet was broken in half.
Jeratt, 12, lost the “Dukes of Hazzard” collection he had gathered since he was 4 years old. Hats, T-shirts, DVDs, watches and cars were blown to the four winds or buried in mud and debris.
But on Saturday, Boss Hogg and his “Hazzard Live” cohorts arrived at Canaanland Baptist Church in the General Lee and Roscoe’s patrol car, their trunks full of memorabilia from the famous TV series. Tom Sarmento, who helped build the stunt cars on the set, drove in from Charlotte, N.C.