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LAKE GENEVA, Wis. (CBS 58) -- A favorite summertime tradition in southeast Wisconsin returns. The Lake Geneva mail boat jumping tryouts took place Wednesday morning, June 9.
Teens are literally jumping at the chance to make special deliveries as mail boat jumpers -- a Lake Geneva tradition more than 100 years old. The 12 teens are trying out for six coveted spots.
LAKE GENEVA, Wis. (CBS 58) -- It wouldn't be summer on Lake Geneva without the mail arriving by boat. High school and college students on Thursday, June 11, will try out to earn one of six coveted ...
LAKE GENEVA, Wis. (CBS 58) — A new group of teenagers in Lake Geneva are vying for one of the most coveted summer jobs: mailboat jumpers.Around 13 people came out to tryout for a spot as one of ...
LAKE GENEVA, Wis. (CBS 58) -- A summer tradition that's more than a century old is back in the resort town of Lake Geneva.The community is looking for its newest crop of mailboat jumpers. The ...
LAKE GENEVA, Wis. (CBS 58) – Around nine teens competed Tuesday morning for a coveted spot as a Lake Geneva Mailboat jumper.It’s a more than 100 year tradition on Geneva Lake.“We are one of ...
Lake Geneva Cruise Line only keeps six jumpers for the season. What makes today unique and extra special the Lake Geneva Cruise Line is celebrating 100 years of delivering mail around the lake.
The only mail delivery in the country that uses teens and college students who jump back and forth from boats is nearing its 100th summer.
The mail boat will be celebrating its 100th anniversary this summer. And a group is organizing a reunion of former mail jumpers and boat captains.
Jumpers actually jump from the moving 100-year-old boat to the dock to deliver mail to about 75 homes around the lake. Mail is delivered every day between June and September.
LAKE GENEVA, Wis. (CBS 58) -- Have you ever tried jumping onto a boat while it's still moving? CBS 58 meteorologist, Justin Thompson Gee did this morning. It's part of the annual mailboat jumper ...