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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Great jumping jehosephats, the giant California frog-jumping contest has been cloned and doubled. When frogs and great literature mix, people can start seeing stranger and stranger things. In Angels ...

BATTLE CREEK, Iowa -- For the 24th year, Battle Creek sponsored an old-fashioned frog jumping contest. "It's just good old-fashioned fun," Martha Boyle of Holstein, Iowa, said. Boyle had four children ...

RUSHFORD, Minn. — A crowd of more than a hundred people gathered around to watch the kids coerce their pet frogs and toads across the finish line around 2 p.m. Saturday at the Rushford Days festival ...

At the Calaveras County Jumping Frog Jubilee in California — made famous in Mark Twain’s short story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” — three researchers discovered potential flaws in ...