More on the Giant Frog
In the last post, I shared a New York Herald article on a Giant Frog discovered in Forestdale, VT. Mind you, this account was published in a newspaper but hardly fit the category of news. The Lazarus-like frog was unearthed 55 years before the article appeared in the Herald. The source of the article was Frank Rogers, then of Forestdale. Frank informed the Herald reporter that he was 15 years old as he personally watched miners uncover the frog, which soon revived. Why did the story itself hibernate for over five decades from 1865 to 1920 before Mr. Rogers and the New York Herald dug it up and revived it? It was widely known, then as now, that glaciers once covered all of New England. Ice covered the land in places to a depth of almost 2 miles. People speculated; could this frog have gone to sleep in a pre-ice age swamp only to be buried, frozen, and roused from sleep in a post-glacial meadow surrounded by the miners who dug him up? (I assume “h...