St. Jerome Fancy Farm Picnic

Fancy Farm, KY · Quirky

When: August 7, 2027
Where: St. Jerome Catholic Church grounds · Fancy Farm · KY
Cost: Not confirmed
Status: Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet

St. Jerome Catholic Church has hosted the country's best-known political stump-speaking picnic every first Saturday of August since the 1880s. Statewide candidates trade barbs from a flatbed stage while parishioners work mutton and barbecue dinner stands that fund the parish school. It draws thousands of visitors to a Graves County community of a few hundred people. The 2027 date above is approximate, based on the picnic's unbroken first-Saturday-of-August pattern.

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