Posts from Rhea Heritage Preservation Foundation
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Rex and the Ramblers take the courthouse stage Friday nightRex and the Ramblers will kick off Nokian Tyres Summer Nights eighth-annual concert series on June 5. The East Tennessee trio consists o...
Nokian Tyres Summer Nights kick off June 5June 5—Rex and the Ramblers June 12—Ed Beavers June 19—Michael Seabolt Band June 26—Wilson and Cross The Rhea Heritage Preservation Foun...
THIS MONTH IN SCOPES TRIAL HISTORYJune 1925 Dayton Progressive Club member Walter Nixon reopens Hotel Dayton in anticipation of the crowds that he hopes will visit Dayton...
‘You Can’t Make a Monkey Out of Me’: Music of the Scopes... “You Can’t Make a Monkey Out of Me” is the title of one song written about the Scopes Trial, making fun of that serious legal case in 19...
May 1926—THIS MONTH IN SCOPES TRIAL HISTORYMay 1926 Edward Young Clarke announces that his Supreme Kingdom’s campaign to drive evolution from the nation’s public schools will “tur...
Rhea County Summer Bazaar SurveyComplete a short survey about our upcoming Summer Bazaar at the Rhea County Courthouse the first Saturday, June through September (excep...
Rhea County Summer Bazaar kicks off June 6 at the courthouseWHO: Rhea Heritage Preservation Foundation WHAT: Community Market Day for home-produced goods WHEN: First Saturday of the month, June th...
THEN—No to Evolution; TODAY—No to CreationismSpeak no evil, hear no evil, see no evil.
April 1926—THIS MONTH IN SCOPES HISTORY1926 April National Book Company sells its last 1,000 copies of The World’s Most Famous Court Trial: Tennessee Evolution Case to Kansas ...
Rhea County students study 1925 Scopes TrialSome 300 elementary school students, from Spring City Elementary, Graysville Elementary and regional home schools, gathered at the Rhea ...
Rhea County students study 1925 Scopes TrialSome 300 elementary school students, from Spring City Elementary, Graysville Elementary and regional home schools, gathered at the Rhea ...
SCOPES TRIAL AFTERMATH—MARCH 12, 2026Mississippi Governor Henry Whitfield signs legislation making Mississipp the second state to ban the teaching of human evolution in its ...
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