VALLEY CITY, Ohio -- With an estimated 3,000 to 4,000 people attending and 740 frogs taking a leap or three across the ring, the 62nd annual Valley City Frog Jump Festival was another success, ...
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 ...
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 ...
WOODLAND — Competing in the 52nd annual Frog Jump at Woodland Planters Days is serious business. It takes some preparation: What’s the wind speed? How’s the terrain? But mostly, it comes down to 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...