Thousands of frog fanatics descended on the small community of Valley City's Mill Stream Park Sunday to watch frogs do what they do best, with lots of encouragement from their handlers of course. When ...
INDEED FINALLY A COLLEGE GRADUATE. THERE YOU GO, CALAVERAS COUNTY FAIR STARTS THIS WEEK, AND AHEAD OF. THAT, WE ARE CELEBRATING NATIONAL FROG JUMPING DAY. SO IN 1865, AUTHOR MARK TWAIN PUBLISHED HIS ...
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 ...
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 ...
In 2019, Landon Holzhausen, 7, caught his winning frog on the banks of the Looking Glass River. It was right before the DeWitt Ox Roast's frog jumping contest. His mother, Nicole Holzhausen, said the ...
Dozens of slimy frogs in a storage container made to be a makeshift bog jumped around awaiting little hands. They were placed on a felt lily pad on an astroturf soccer field where they competed for ...
VALLEY CITY --- The 61st Annual Valley City Frog Jump July 24 featured a number of firsts. From the overall size of the festival – with twice the number of jump houses as the 2021 festival and more ...
In the town of Springfield lies the competition of the Governor’s Frog Jump. Ever since the 1960s, people have been traveling to compete with aspirations of winning. Those aspirations have been ...
VALLEY CITY, Ohio -- Following somewhat of a stop-gap in 2020, the Valley City Frog Jump Festival will return Sunday (July 25) for its 60th annual event, live and in person at Mill Stream Park, 1200 ...
Kate Carlson pounded on the ground on both sides of her bullfrog, Toothless, in an effort to urge it jump Saturday at the Post-Tribune’s annual frog jump contest at the 169th Lake County Fair in Crown ...