Al Gore, blood hounds and the Terminator. See who’s shown up at Fancy Farm over the years
Andrew Henderson
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The St. Jerome Catholic Church Fancy Farm Picnic has everything anyone could ever want: humid weather, thousands of pounds of barbecue, bingo and political zingers flying through the air. Statistically speaking, at least one of those aforementioned things interests most people.
Everyone’s favorite church fundraiser/stump speech extravaganza is returning to the small town of Fancy Farm in Graves County for its 143rd year on Aug. 5, 2023. While the picnic itself spans three centuries, the political speeches didn’t begin until a couple decades into the 20th Century.
In a 2015 interview with Kentucky Educational Television, Mark Wilson, the then-chairman of the political speaking for the Fancy Farm Picnic, said it was Sen. Alben Barkley, a Democrat born in 1887 in Graves County, was the first one who “got the ball rolling” on the picnic’s more political side.
Barkley was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, later elected U.S. senator and ended his political career as the vice president to President Harry Truman.
However, many credit the rise in popularity of political speaking at the picnic to when former Kentucky Gov. A.B. “Happy” Chandler would take the stage. In fact, Chandler and Barkely were oftentimes rivals as Chandler challenged Barkely for his Senate seat in the 1938 election.
That year’s picnic must’ve been a humdinger.
In the following decades, there has been no shortage of political figures to grace the stage of the Fancy Farm picnic. Sen. Mitch McConnell has his fair share of appearances and even Democratic vice presidential nominee Al Gore has made the trip.
Here’s a look at the politicos who have come to Fancy Farm over the years.
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