For Release: July 23 , 2007
KET offers three hours of live online video streaming from the 2007 Fancy Farm picnic , Saturday, Aug. 4 beginning at 3 / 2 p.m. CT at www.ket.org/fancyfarm. Bill Goodman and Renee Shaw also present highlights from the picnic, including excerpts of speeches by candidates for governor and other statewide offices , i n Fancy Farm: Pork, Pie and Politics , airing Monday, Aug. 6 at 8/7 p.m. CT on KET1.
The annual Fancy Farm picnic, hosted by a small Roman Catholic church in Graves County, has been the site of food, fun and political oratory for more than 120 years. The menu usually includes several varieties of Western Kentucky barbecue, with traditional fixings and speeches by candidates for statewide or national office. Some 15,000 people attend the politically charged event -- the unofficial kickoff of fall campaigning in Kentucky politics.
Fancy Farm: Pork, Pie and Politics is a KET production, produced by Renee Shaw and directed by Carl Babcock. More information about KET programming and education services, as well as how to support KET, can be found at www.ket.org.