Kentucky GOP Senate candidates vie for spotlight with well-placed zingers at Fancy Farm
By McKenna Horsley Kentucky Lantern FANCY FARM, Ky. — The top three Republican candidates hoping to represent Kentucky in the…
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KET revives plan to cover 2025 Fancy Farm Picnic with donation after federal funding cuts
By McKenna Horsley Kentucky Lantern KET is reviving its plans to cover the 2025 Fancy Farm Picnic in West Kentucky…
Fancy Farm gathering in the works; 2026 primary candidates being invited to participate Aug. 2
By Tom Latek Kentucky Today Despite there being no elections in Kentucky during 2025, organizers of the annual Fancy Farm…
Fancy Farm: GOP bashes Beshear, Harris; school funding amendment energizes crowd
By Liam Neimeyer Kentucky Lantern FANCY FARM — The stage at this year’s Fancy Farm picnic in West Kentucky was…
Fancy Farm making plans for political stump speaking; 144th picnic set for August 3
By Tom Latek Kentucky Today It is less than a month away from the 144th annual Fancy Farm Picnic and…
John Schickel: Robby Mills is a solid choice and will make an excellent lieutenant governor for Kentucky
I love good political theater, and neither candidate for governor disappointed me at Fancy Farm this year. It was great….
Al Cross: The race for governor; will culture trump politics again?
The first faceoff of the candidates for governor, at last Saturday’s Fancy Farm Picnic, brought the race into clearer focus….
At annual Fancy Farm picnic, Beshear, Cameron face off for first time, trading barbs before raucous crowd
By McKenna Horsley The Kentucky Lantern As the sweltering humidity rose, Kentucky’s gubernatorial candidates turned the heat up on each…
McConnell tells Fancy Farm crowd ‘it won’t be his last,’ ‘we owe it to next generation to finish the job’
By McKenna Horsley The Kentucky Lantern Nine days after he stopped speaking mid-sentence in a news conference in Washington, D.C.,…
Emcee announced as preparations continue for 143rd Annual St. Jerome Fancy Farm Picnic August 5
By Tom Latek Kentucky Today Planning for the 143rd Annual St. Jerome Fancy Farm Picnic on August 5, where thousands…
Al Cross: Cameron shows why he’s the one to beat, then could get beat
FANCY FARM – In the 24-hour political circus that ends with the Fancy Farm Picnic, Daniel Cameron was always in…
U.S. Senate candidate Charles Booker will be the only democrat speaking at Fancy Farm picnic
By Tom Latek Kentucky Today U.S. Senate candidate Charles Booker may be thinking about the old Three Dog Night Song…
Al Cross: As Beshear largely shuns Booker, Republicans prepare for first face-off at Fancy Farm
As we look forward (well, I do) to the political speaking at the Fancy Farm Picnic in Graves County on…
List of speakers for first full-length Fancy Farm picnic since COVID pandemic began continues to grow
By Tom Latek Kentucky Today The speakers list continues to grow for Fancy Farm, the annual event in the small…
Kentucky political tradition, Fancy Farm, is just a month away, kicks off fall political season
By Tom Latek Kentucky Today FANCY FARM, Ky. – With the event now just a month away on August 6,…
141st Fancy Farm picnic tradition program is shaping up, though there’s a counter-event in Louisville
By Tom Latek Kentucky Today The speaker’s list has expanded for the political speaking portion of the 141st Fancy Farm Picnic…
140th Fancy Farm will just be picnic on Aug. 1 — no political speeches this year; more details coming
By Mark Maynard Kentucky Today Fancy Farm’s annual picnic is still a go for August, but without the political speeches,…
Al Cross: We learned some meaningful things at Fancy Farm; raucous crowd tells us a lot too
FANCY FARM, Ky. – For all its hoopla, the political speaking at the Fancy Farm Picnic rarely has much effect…
Constance Alexander: Missing miracle of Fancy Farm by staying close to home, reading Wendell Berry
Along with the 19,500 pounds of barbecue served up at the annual Fancy Farm picnic, there is enough hot air…
Fancy Farm: Attorney General candidates Cameron, Stumbo show off some fancy speaking too
By Tom Latek Kentucky Today FANCY FARM, Ky. (KT) — Fireworks were not limited to gubernatorial candidates at the Fancy…
Matt Bevin, Andy Beshear fire off familiar jabs in front of rowdy crowd at annual Fancy Farm picnic
By Tom Latek Kentucky Today Both gubernatorial candidates, Republican Matt Bevin and Democrat Andy Beshear, used familiar themes during their…
Fancy Farm this Saturday kicks off political season, focus on gubernatorial candidates; election Nov. 5
By Tom Latek Kentucky Today Expect some fancy talking at the Fancy Farm picnic Saturday in western Kentucky as the…
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