SUMMER STORIES Begin Tonight, August 4 @ 7pm, with Fayleen

 

Summer Stories begin Monday, August 4th at 7pm as Fayleen Bellois begins a series of short tales by American author, critic, and journalist, Mark Twain.

TONIGHT: "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” written in 1865, was Twain’s first great success as a writer and brought him national attention. The story has also been published as "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog" (its original title) and "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County". In it, the narrator retells a story he heard from a bartender, Simon Wheeler, at the Angels Hotel in Angels Camp, California, about the gambler Jim Smiley. The narrator describes him: "If he even seen a straddle bug start to go anywheres, he would bet you how long it would take him to get to wherever he going to, and if you took him up, he would foller that straddle bug to Mexico but what he would find out where he was bound for and how long he was on the road."

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