This year marks the one hundredth anniversary of the Scopes Trial in Dayton, and a grand celebration is taking place! Many families have some connection to this event, even though ...

Nellie Kenyon, who was a rare female reporter 100 years ago, wrote about how Dayton, Tennessee, was preparing for the Scopes ...

This is part of a weekly series on our region’s history coordinated by the Trumbull County Historical Society. In ...

Rumors that God is dead — that the Creator was somehow killed off in the Scopes trial — are greatly exaggerated.

Newspapers dubbed it ‘The Trial of the Century.’ As grandiose as that description may sound, it might have been an ...

Oh how times have changed. Or have they? Take a glance at local stories from years past.

It was called “the trial of the century,” and it brought a circus-like atmosphere and a compelling cast of characters to a ...

Mr. Bryan’s closest friend in Chattanooga was said to be George Washington Chamlee Sr., who had been the local district ...

Scopes was fined $100 (a verdict later overturned on a technicality). Bryan, a broken man, died in Dayton five days later.

DAYTON, Tenn. (AP) — For over 30 years, people in Rhea County have put on a play every July using the trial transcript, aiming to correct the record.

A 7-year-old boy whose remains were believed to be found Saturday had not been seen for weeks, according to Dayton police.

Certain colloquialisms (“So the Scopes case. So Dayton.”) could pass for modern magazine striving. James draws connections that might elude a writer not from Enid, Oklahoma.