On May 5, the California Capitol's event to preview the Calaveras County Fair’s famed frog jumping…
On May 5, the California Capitol's event to preview the Calaveras County Fair’s famed frog jumping competition hit its 50th year. Frog jumping is a uniquely California sport. It grew out of a late 1800s fictional story by the author Mark Twain — one credited with launching the writer’s career. Frog jumping’s Superbowl is the Calaveras County Fair, occurring later this month. A frog is set down upon a designated jumping point and from there, winners come down to the exertion of that frog to jump and jump far. At the fair, participants are not allowed to touch their frog once it’s set on the jumping off point and rely instead on shouts, whistles or menacing leaps in the frog’s direction to make it jump. At the Capitol, participants — which included journalists, lawmakers and members of their staffs — were allowed to poke and prod the frogs to get them to move. To read more, check out sacbee.com. ✍️: Andrew Graham 📸: Hector Amezcua #frog #frogjumping #news #feature #california #capitol #politics #animals
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