Fall 2025 Lifelong Learning Special Gathering: “The Scopes “Monkey Trial’”

Friday, October 3, 2025 12:00 PM-1:30 PM

Longview Mansion

Join award-winning journalist Leon Alligood on Friday, Oct. 3 at Longview Mansion for “The Scopes ‘Monkey Trial’: 100 Years Later” presented by the Lifelong Learning program.

 

Dayton, Tennessee, is a small town about 150 miles from Nashville. But 100 years ago, Dayton was the center of what was then called the “Monkey Trial,” a highly publicized legal battle in which high school teacher John Scopes was tried for teaching evolution. The popular 1960 movie “Inherit the Wind” was loosely based on the drama and outcome of that trial. Alligood has researched the facts and will talk about the trial, the verdict and the impact on Dayton.

 

A veteran of both the Nashville Banner and the Tennessean, Alligood is a member of the Tennessee Journalism Hall of Fame. Most recently he was a journalism professor at Middle Tennessee State University.

 

Cost is $45 per person and includes lunch. Registration is required by Sept. 30. Free parking is available on site. 

 

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QUESTIONS? Contact amy.hamar [at] lipscomb.edu (Amy Hamar) for more information about this fall’s Lifelong Learning program.