Steve Flairty

Steve Flairty is a teacher, public speaker and an author of seven books: a biography of Kentucky Afield host Tim Farmer and six in the Kentucky’s Everyday Heroes series, including a kids’ version. Steve’s “Kentucky’s Everyday Heroes #5,” was released in 2019. He is a senior correspondent for Kentucky Monthly, a weekly NKyTribune columnist and a former member of the Kentucky Humanities Council Speakers Bureau.

Among the 2,400 historical markers throughout Kentucky, 22 tell the history of Christian County.
By Steve Flairty
man next to historical marker
Robert Penn Warren, a Kentucky native from Guthrie, became America’s first Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry in 1986.
By Steve Flairty
A historical marker identifies Robert Penn Warren's boyhood home in Guthrie, Kentucky. (Photo by Jennifer P. Brown, Hoptown Chronicle)