Sunday’s 80th anniversary of the beginning of the Scopes "Monkey Trial" is attracting a good deal of media attention. (See prior posting). Friday’s Wichita Eagle discussed the trial and two recent books about it. The books are Marvin Olasky & John Perry, Monkey Business: The True Story of the Scopes Trial (Broadman & Holman), and Michael Ruse, The Evolution-Creation Struggle (Harvard University Press), previously mentioned on this blog.
The Ashland, TN City Times on Friday reported on the Scopes Festival, held each year in Dayton, Tennessee, the site of the trial. The Festival, which features a re-enactment of the trial, is expected to draw 1,100 people this year. The organizing chairman for the festival is Tom Davis. He is affiliated with Bryan College, a religious college named for William Jennings Bryan, the prosecutor in the Scopes trial.
