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 morning of August 18 the frogs were sad. It was a rainy day and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jul. 22—MASSENA — Ryder Peets came to Thursday's Boss Frog Jumping Competition at the Massena Arena with three frogs in tow. He hoped one of them would hop to the finish line in a record time to allow ...

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FAYETTEVILLE — Since some time in the 1990s, members of the Johns family of Gatewood have been winners at the annual Fourth of July Frog Jumping Contest hosted by the City of Fayetteville. "We've done ...

For years, organizers of the Calaveras County Fair and Frog Jumping Jubilee urged participants to carefully put the frogs back where they got them after the annual contest. Last summer, they found out ...

It’s no bull. The celebrated jumping frogs of Calaveras County can compete this May and live to leap another day. In a policy flip-flop, state Fish and Game wardens have found a way around a state law ...

TURNERS — Under a bowl at the center of the "arena," the competitors waited to be released. Spectators from all over the country surrounded the circle. The competition was about to begin. Ready, set ...

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 ...