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GET YOUR TICKETS NOW!The July 12 matinee performance of Destiny in Dayton is sold out! Don't wait to order your tickets for the remaining three shows. ORDER NOW!
Paleoanthropologist to speak at Scopes Trial SymposiumWhat says “Scopes Trial” better than a hominin fossil? And what makes a fossil a human or human relative? Lawyers spent much of eight da...
May 28, 1925—THIS DAY IN SCOPES HISTORYBryan writes to Dayton attorneys Sue and Herbert Hicks that John Scopes’s upcoming trial is “the easiest case to explain I have ever fou...
Scopes Trial Play cast enjoy get-togetherCurrent and future cast members for Destiny in Dayton gathered May 20 in the Scopes Trial Museum for a get-together to kick off rehearsa...
Economic Director Alex Green volunteers with the Rhea He... Alex Green is the youngest member of the Rhea Heritage Preservation Foundation board of directors, but he brings with him a lifetime of ...
May 22, 1925—THIS DAY IN SCOPES HISTORYThe Dayton Progressive Club commits to raising $5,000 ($87,200 in 2023) to “tell the world about Dayton.” Although members of the group ...
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...