Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Scopes Trial Museum & Rhea County Courthouse, Dayton, Tennessee

The Rhea County Courthouse, located in Dayton, Tennessee was the scene of the Scopes Trial of July 1925, in which teacher John T. Scopesfaced charges for including Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in his public school lesson. The trial became a clash of titans between the lawyersWilliam Jennings Bryan for the prosecution and Clarence Darrow for the defense, and epitomizes the tension between fundamentalism andmodernism in a wide range of aspects of American society.
A $1-million project which restored the second-floor courtroom to the way it looked during the Scopes trial was completed in 1979. The Rhea County Museum, also called the Scopes Trial Museum, is located in its basement and contains such memorabilia as the microphone used to broadcast the trial, trial records, photographs, and an audiovisual history of the trial. Every July local people re-enact key moments of the trial in the courtroom.[3]  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhea_County_Courthouse

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