Monday, July 27, 2009 2:47 pm

Former reporter Al Cross will be the emcee at the Fancy Farm Picnic next Saturday.  This is quite a change of gig for Cross who spent his journalistic first Saturdays in August sweating out a story from West Kentucky for the Courier Journal in Louisville.
Fortunately for Al, the hijinks of years past - marches, skits, drowning out the speaker with catcalls and chants - have been quieted somewhat by the increased presence of law enforcement in recent years.
Cross can be ringmaster where past emcees have been lion tamers.