Francis darwin Great Grandson of Charles Darwin visits Rhea Courthouse September 27,1972 Francis Darwin, who is the great-grandson of Charles Darwin fields questions at the Rhea County Courthouse after the premiere of the motion picture “The Darwin Adventure“. The film is based on a five-year ocean voyage Charles Darwin Took in the 1830’s that lead…
Scopes Trial Related
Hatching The 1925 Scopes Trial Case
Grouped about the little table in Robinson’s Drug Store, Dayton, Tennessee, is where the argument on the new Tennessee “Butler Act” law that resulted in the prosecution of John Thomas Scopes for teaching evolution in the high school where he was professor of biology. Shown seated left to right are Herbert E. Hicks, attorney; John…
Miss Dayton Welcomes John Thomas Scopes To Town
Miss Dayton Nancy Shipley Welcomes John Thomas Scopes To Town On 35th Anniversary Of Famous Trial. Nancy Shipley had not yet been born when John Thomas Scopes was convicted in 1925 of violating Tennessee’s newly passed Butler Act. A trial in which the world has come to know as “The Monkey Trial”. In 1960, the…