Pulitzer Prize winner speaks three times over the weekend
Dr. Edward Larson, Pulitzer Prize-winner for his 1998 best-seller Summer of the Gods, was the guest speaker for the Scopes Trial Centennial Kickoff Dinner Friday night at Bryan College. About 250 county and state leaders attended the dinner, hosted by Bryan College and the Rhea Heritage Preservation Foundation. Larson called the 1925 Scopes Trial an "early salvo in the ongoing battle between culture and science," and that it had become an "American legend." In addition to Friday night, Larson spoke Saturday morning to local teachers and professors at a breakfast meeting and to a presentation for the community in the historic Rhea County Courthouse.
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