Ross Perot was in Kentucky in the early 90s during his third party campaign for president. Chuck Wolfe, now a gov't spokesman, and a host of national and international reporters covered the event.

The press pack included one 15 year old Frankfort High sophomore by the name of Potter. She was her dad's sound man for the press conference in the Rotunda. (She's the one at Chuck Wolfe's knee holding up the tiny recorder. 

1992: Hebert reads up on legislative tip sheet.


2008: The mustache is gone. So is the brown hair.

Tony McVey hasn't aged much over the years. Here he is at Fancy Farm in 1992 getting out of the sun. Cool shorts.

Al Cross, now of UK's rural journalism, came to West Kentucky over many years. Here he is, in the red shirt, studiously taking notes. The white bandstand is the old Fancy Farm speaking platform before the rain cover was built. It's also when the public could sit close to the speakers and security was much more relaxed than in these fearful times.  The "kid" in the blue shirt sitting on the ground in a semi-lotus is yours truly. What the heck was being said that brought on that smile. Mitch could NOT have been speaking.

A more recent picture of Al has him with that other Kentucky journalist named Al. This is Al Smith's last Fancy Farm show. (that has to be a new red shirt, surely)



















Bill Bishop sitting in the grass at the Capitol waiting for whatever pearls of wisdom were going to drop from some elected official's mouth. No, we don't remember the occasion-a moment in history that no one else remembers either is our guess.

Here's a more recent Bishop photo - signing his book "The Big Sort" that got him on the Daily Show with John Stewart.