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95-year-old Bob Hall returned to the 2025 Kentucky State Fair to enter his apple pie and pound cake in the culinary competition.

Hall has participated in the Kentucky State Fair for over 80 years, previously showing livestock and smoking lamb.

In 2024, he won a blue ribbon for his shortbread cookies in his first year entering the culinary competition.

Hall learned to bake bread from his mother and obtained his shortbread recipe during a sheep tour in England and Scotland.

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Bob Hall, 95, walked onto the grounds of the 2025 Kentucky State Fair on Aug. 11 with a picnic basket in one hand and a cane in the other.

More than one person offered to carry the basket for him, and he kindly waved them off.

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