May 15 - Frog Jumping Jubilee Day
Frog Jumping Day celebrates Mark Twain's 'jumping frog' story which made him famous. It was first published in 1865 as "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog" while Twain was still a struggling journalist in California. Two years later it was the main attraction of his first book. He never wrote another short story that had such widespread appeal and was so popular.
Read the The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.