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Evolution and Christians aren't mutually exclusiveChristians are “creationists,” and “evolutionists” aren’t Christians—or that’s the way some would frame the debate over human origins. B...
Rex and the Ramblers kick off Nokian Tyres Summer Nights... June 6—Rex and the Ramblers June 13—Ed Beavers June 20—Joe C. DeVille June 27—Wilson and Cross The Rhea Heritage Preservation Foundation...
Science has changed over the past centuryHas science changed in the past century? Certainly, knowledge has increased and there have been discoveries and inventions that affect o...
May 14, 1925—THIS DAY IN SCOPES HISTORYProsecuting attorney Sue Hicks formally notifies William Jennings Bryan, former U.S. secretary of state and three-time Democratic nomine...
Rhea Heritage officers serve as Strawberry Parade grand ... Rick Dye, president, and Tom Davis, vice president, of the Rhea Heritage Preservation Foundation served as grand marshals of the 78th an...
May 9, 1925—THIS DAY IN SCOPES HISTORYAfter being arrested by deputy sheriff Perry Swafford (1897-1949), Scopes is formally charged with violating the Butler Act, but is neve...
Kids enjoy Rhea Heritage boothHundreds of children and their parents stopped by the Rhea Heritage Preservation Foundation booth at Monday’s Kids’ Night festivities du...
May 5, 1925—THIS DAY IN SCOPES HISTORYSeveral of Dayton’s civic leaders meet in Robinson’s Drug Store—the cultural center of Dayton—and begin planning a show-trial to test th...
May 4, 1925—THIS DAY IN SCOPES HISTORYSeveral newspapers in Tennessee report that the ACLU is “looking for a Tennessee teacher who is willing to accept our services in testin...
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...
