This is the place where, around the table in Robinson's Drugstore, the Scopes trial originated." Nestled in the Tennessee River valley between Chattanooga and Knoxville, Dayton was founded after ...

DAYTON, Tenn. (CN) – The grand opening of a renovated museum dedicated to the Scopes “monkey trial” – the famous ... on charges that a teacher violated Tennessee law by teaching evolution in a ...

Eloise Reed was 14 years old when the "monkey trial" came to her hometown of Dayton, Tennessee ... where it started,' also is President of the School Board." Reporter H. L. Mencken dubbed Dayton ...

This courthouse, where every step seems like it’s on a creaking board, was the site of the Scopes Monkey Trial 94 years ago. And around its anniversary, the town of Dayton ... Tennessee law ...

Thirty years ago, when I was an eighth grader at a small public school in central ... to purchase monkey souvenirs on the ...