The Scopes Festival returns this weekend to Dayton, Tennessee. The annual gathering commemorates the July 1925 trial in Dayton of John Scopes, a high school teacher accused of violating a Tennessee law that barred the teaching of evolution in public schools.

"How It Started" At This Year's Scopes Festival

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"How It Started" At This Year's Scopes Festival

"How It Started" At This Year's Scopes Festival