Day 2 of Calaveras County Fair and Jumping Frog Jubilee May 18 - 21
Posted by: thepinetree on 05/19/2023 08:42 AM
Frogtown, USA....The Calaveras County Fair and Jumping Frog Jubilee May 18 - 21 Day 2. Click the image below for a full schedule...or hear for full schedule.
Over 100 2023 Frog Jump Youth Photos & Full Parade Video
Posted by: thepinetree on 05/18/2023 05:31 PM
Angels Camp, CA...The 2023 Calaveras County Fair & Frog Jumping Jubilee is officially underway at the Soroptimist's Frog Jump Youth Parade led off the festivities. A good crowd was on hand for a great slice of small town Americana, Youth Floats, The Calaveras Marching Band, Beauty Queens, Dancing Groups, this year's Tom & Becky Thatcher all the way from Mark Twain's boyhood home of Hannibal MO. & much more. Over 100 photos & full parade video is below.
Angels Camp, CA...The 2023 Calaveras County Fair & Frog Jumping Jubilee is officially underway at the Soroptimist's Frog Jump Youth Parade led off the festivities. A good crowd was on hand for a great slice of small town Americana, Youth Floats, The Calaveras Marching Band, Beauty Queens, Dancing Groups, this year's Tom & Becky Thatcher all the way from Mark Twain's boyhood home of Hannibal MO. & much more. The full parade video is below and we have a few hundred photos to sort through and will post a full photo album with photos of every entry later.
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County ~ By Mark Twain 1835-1910
Posted by: thepinetree on 05/17/2023 11:32 AM
Angels Camp, CA...In compliance with the request of a friend of mine, who wrote me from the East, I called on good-natured, garrulous old Simon Wheeler, and inquired after my friend's friend, Leonidas W. Smiley, as requested to do, and I hereunto append the result. I have a lurking suspicion that Leonidas W. Smiley is a myth; that my friend never knew such a personage; and that he only conjectured that, if I asked old Wheeler about him, it would remind him of his infamous Jim Smiley, and he would go to work and bore me nearly to death with some infernal reminiscence of him as long and tedious as it should be useless to me. If that was the design, it certainly succeeded.
Hannibal, Missouri...Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain), November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910. Writer of The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County that put Calaveras County & also Mark Twain on the map.
"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
"I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened."
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."
"All good things arrive unto them that wait and don’t die in the meantime."
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."
"Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits."
Angels Camp, CA...South Main Street will be closed from Bret Harte Road (near St. Patrick’s Church) to Vallecito Road on May 18, 2023 from 9:45 AM to approximately 11:15 AM for the annual Youth Parade. If you need to get around the road closure, use the Hwy 4 Bypass….or better yet, park your vehicle and watch the parade!
$20,000 Prize Awaits at Frog Jump Finals of Jumping Frog Jubilee!
Posted by: thepinetree on 05/16/2023 03:47 PM
Frogtown, USA...All eyes will be on the $20,000 Prize at the May 21 Grand Finals of the Jumping Frog Jubilee – but there are many other highlights. The increase in prize money has inspired more serious frog jumpers than ever before. Prior to the jump off between the 50 longest leapers in the four-day competition the crowd will enjoy several warm-up jumps.
