You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. On Thursday, Aug. 21, ten hardy frogs leapt at the chance to take part in ...

Food trucks and inflatable water slides are two things you often see at many community celebrations, but one unique event Saturday at Rushford Days was the Frog Jumping Contest. For the fourth year, ...

Aug. 7—JEFFERSON — Despite off-and-on rain showers, a good crowd came out Tuesday to the Ashtabula County Fair to witness the most talented amphibians take flight in a battle of hops. The highlight of ...

OSCEOLA, Ind. (WNDU) - The highly anticipated frog jumping contest took center stage on Sunday at the Osceola Music Festival. This fan favorite event has been going on for nearly 40 years and consists ...

Aug. 8—JEFFERSON — Mark Twain made frog jumping world famous in his short story, "Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." And, although fairgoers may have read the story several times, it's best ...

We may be alike in that you, too, believed frog jumping contests had gone the way of Mark Twain, steamboats and rotary dial telephones. Like me, you would be wrong. We have been with the rural wing of ...

ANGELS CAMP, Calif. — A rift between organizers of Calaveras County's famous frog jumping contest did not keep away thousands of frog wranglers Sunday inspired by Mark Twain's tall tale. About 4,000 ...

ANGELS CAMP — Veteran and rookie frog jockeys faced off Sunday in the Calaveras County Fair and Frog Jump Jubilee, an annual gathering in California's gold country that honors a short story by Mark ...