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...
County Commission Workshop Agenda 05.13.2025RHEA COUNTY COMMISSION WORKSHOP CONFERENCE ROOM, PHIL SWAFFORD BUILDING TUESDAY, MAY 13 TH , 2025, IMMEDEATLY FOLLOWING THE BUDGET COMMI...
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...
