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 ...

Because I missed the 74th Annual Calaveras County Jumping Frog Jubilee this year at Angels Camp in the heart of California Gold Country, I decided to check out their web site to see who had won.

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 ...

SACRAMENTO. SO SWITCHING GEARS A LITTLE BIT HERE. ONE OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA’S MOST FAMOUS FAIRS KICKS OFF TODAY. AND KCRA 3’S MELANIE WINGO HAS DETAILS ON THE CALAVERAS COUNTY FAIR AND THOSE JUMPING ...

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 ...

Visitors to the high California hills of Calaveras County during the third weekend in May have quite a treat in store. This is when Frogtown, USA, comes to life with the annual Calaveras County Fair ...

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 ...

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 ...

Get out your smallest violin—or maybe your biggest—for the petite frogs whose miniature ear structures hinder their ability to hop, one of the defining characteristics of frogs. The frogs are of the ...