Although Monday, February 12th is the 216th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, we will officially celebrate our Darwin Day event this year on February 28th. Family friendly, food trucks, scavenger hunt, local artists, and more! The vision of Darwin Day is to “inspire people throughout the globe to reflect and act on the principles of intellectual … Continued

2025 marks the 100th anniversary of the so-called Scopes "Monkey" Trial.  In July 1925 in tiny Dayton, Tennessee, first-year coach and math/physics teacher John Scopes was put on trial for violating Tennessee’s newly passed law criminalizing the teaching of human evolution in public schools. Scopes’s trial became a sensational global news story and stoked a … Continued