Frogman Festival Organizer

Founder and Director of Frogman Festival

After 15 years as a vendor at events with his paranormal maps, Hidden Ohio Map & Guide, and Map In Black, Jeff founded and organized the first Frogman Festival in 2023. The one-day event was held in Mason at Great Wolf Lodge. With 8 speakers and over 50 hand-picked vendors, as well as the first-ever Meta Zoo Tower Tournament, around 2000 people attended and participated in the event. The purpose of the Frogman Festival is to gather and celebrate the legend of the Frogman story as well as other strange and unusual stories in our region.

The festival provides an inclusive and accessible space for anyone and everyone. Tolerance and acceptance is at the forefront for all who attend, participate, and volunteer. Jeff has been a cartographer for 30 years in the field of map publishing and currently works in the utility industry. He has also been an instructor at Northern Kentucky University and other area schools teaching introductory geography courses. In 2005, he was awarded a grant by NKU to help research the sites that would later be included in the 1st edition of Hidden Ohio Map & Guide which was published in 2007. Also in 2007 Hidden Ohio Map & Guide received an honorable mention in the Cartography and Geographic Information Society annual map competition. In 2022, the Printing and Graphics Assoc awarded Map In Black, Best In Category for Map Process to Williams and Heintz, the printer of the map. Then in 2023, Hidden Ohio Map & Guide, 4th edition also received the annual award.