If you're viewing this on the ABC10 App, tap here for multimedia. "He's good enough for one thing, I should judge -- he can out-jump any frog in Calaveras County." - Mark Twain, 1865 - The Celebrated ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. On the afternoon of August 18, 2023, sixteen intrepid frogs and their ...

From 1944 to 1978, contestants dressed like Tom Sawyer for Hartford’s annual frog-jumping contest that re-created the legendary competition in Mark Twain’s classic tale “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of ...

GOSHEN — Colton Stuckman, 30, hit the pillow at 4 a.m. the morning of the frog jump contest at the 2025 Elkhart County 4-H Fair. “We were out late last night and the night before catching all these ...

CALAVERAS COUNTY (CBS13) — Mark Twain wrote "The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County," and more than a century-and-a-half later, the competition is hotter than ever. The jubilee just crowned ...

ANGELS CAMP, Calif. — For the 75th straight spring, the golden foothills of the Mother Lode are awhirl with Calaveras County’s celebrated jumping frog jubilee, an annual rite of Americana inspired by ...

Chicken Wing just wouldn’t hop. No matter what Keeli Ford did, she couldn’t get the little guy to move. She rapidly pounded her fists on the grass behind him, she blew on his back, she begged Chicken ...

Springfield residents are excited about the upcoming Governor's Frog Jump and International Egg Strike. “This is always a huge event. This is something just everybody looks forward to and everybody in ...

Blame Mark Twain — his 1885 short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” inspired the annual frog jumping competition at Angels Camp. Since 1928, the Calaveras County Fair and ...

VALLEY CITY, Ohio -- Celebrating its 60th year -- following a 2020 that nearly broke its string -- the Valley City Frog Jump Festival saw a record number of both frogs and frog jumpers Sunday (July 25 ...