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    May 1, 1925—THIS DAY IN SCOPES HISTORYAfter a “good though hardly remarkable first year,” John Scopes’s contract ends at RCHS, but he stays in town to help two students injur...
    April 28, 1925 THIS DAY IN SCOPES HISTORYOn this day in 1925, John T. Scopes gave an exam to his biology class that included no questions about the process of evolution, but did...
    Scopes Trial Play cast get-together scheduledThe Scopes Trial Play will host a cast/recruitment party on Tuesday, May 20, at 7 p.m. in the Rhea County Heritage & Scopes Trial Museum...
    Rhea Heritage sponsors first Scopes Festival debateTwo Bryan College students debated the value of school choice April 17 in the same courtroom where William Jennings Bryan and Clarence D...
    Tennessee General Assembly commemorates Scopes Trial Cen... The Tennessee House of Representatives recently adopted a resolution sponsored by Rep. Ron Travis recognizing Rhea County and its celebr...
    Supremes expected to side with parents over Maryland sch... Not surprisingly, we at the Rhea Heritage Preservation Foundation tend to look at school legal cases through the lens of the 1925 Scopes...
    Bryan College debaters argue the merits of school choiceThe Rhea Heritage Preservation Foundation will host a debate featuring two students from the Bryan College Debate Team onThursday, April...
    Scopes Trial intrigues the worldYesterday’s history, today’s headlines. Visit Dayton, TN, in July to see where it all started. For more information check out Scopes100....
    Rhea Heritage officials named parade grand marshalsTom Davis and Rick Dye
    Science, religion and Scopes: Conflict and cooperationThe “Great Commoner,” William Jennings Bryan, an outspoken proponent of the historic Christian faith, and the “Great Agnostic,” Clarence...
    Nokian Tyres Summer Nights announces June lineupThe Rhea Heritage Preservation Foundation has just announced the schedule for its sixth annual Nokian Tyres Summer Nights concert series...
    April 1925—THIS MONTH IN SCOPES HISTORYRCHS principal and biology teacher William Ferguson gets sick and misses two weeks of school in April. Ferguson’s substitute teacher is ...

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