News of the Bullfrog Family:

Bullfrog Jumped Tour

The Bullfrog had a fantastic time hopping all over the state in October 2007 and January 2008.  He visited students in towns where the singers on the Bullfrog Jumped CD came from.  Storyteller Wanda Johnson told about Byron Arnold and why and how he collected so many old folk songs. She also told about the wonderful women and children who shared their songs with him in 1947. Joyce Cauthen taught students to sing the songs and played the games. 

At each school the students sang for a recorder just like the original singers did sixty years ago.  Mrs. Cauthen is sorry that because she was holding the microphone her voice is the one you hear the loudest; however you can tell that that all the schools had good singers and a good time learning the old songs.  We hope they are still singing them.

Click on the school name to see a photo and to hear them sing.

Weeden Elementary School (Florence)

Cloverdale and Waterloo Elementary Schools (Lauderdale County)

West Regional Library (Mobile)

Mary B. Austin Elementary School (Mobile)

Grove Hill Elementary School

A.C. Moore Elementary School (Atmore)

The Bullfrog Jumped Tour was made possible by funds from the sale of Support the Arts car tags. We thank all of you who have them on your automobiles.

Mary Chapman is alive and well...and living in Jacksonville, Florida!

For years as we researched the singers on Bullfrog Jumped and never could find Mary Chapman.  After the CD came out in 2006, relatives in Grove Hill read about the CD in the Clarke County News and let the editor, Jim Cox, know that she has been living in Jacksonville, Florida, for the last 40 years with her husband. She is Mary Courinton now.  We   sent her copies of the CD and she was thrilled to be on it.  She now mainly sings in church.

Mary Chapman with baby George Carleton, ca. 1947

Photo of Jane Peavy Found

Jane Peavy of Atmore taught school for more than 50 years and then served as a librarian for ten more years.  Recently Emily Mims of the Atmore Chamber of Commerce sent us this photo.  On the back it read: "1931-32  Rachel Patterson Elementary,  Miss Jane Peavy.  We believe that Mrs. Peavy is the teacher at the back of the classroom watching a demonstration by an expert spinner.  Note the samples of hand-woven cloth on the wall.