scopesmonkeytrial

This image has been used in the indicommons.org post Tennessee v. John T. Scopes.

The day after Bryan’s death following the Scopes trial in 1925, H. L. Mencken scarcely took the time to bow his head before uncharitably calling him “a charlatan, a mountebank, a zany without sense or dignity….leading his forlorn mob of imbeciles…[and] uttering stuff that a boy of eight would laugh at.”

That seems like a very dark and heavy coat to be wearing in July in Tennessee. He's not dressed like any of the other men involved in the Scopes Trial. Could certainly be that preacher TIME mentioned. Wonder if the woman behind him is with him...

Note the Model T Ford in the background on the right.

Penny, why do you add all these irrelevant tags to photos?

They're not irrelevant to me.

Well, sorry, that does not answer my question. They are irrelevant to this story and to the Smithsonian photostream. I mean, come on, the word "standing" as a tag? What if someone else wants "posing" and someone else wants "living" and some else wants "woman in the background"? These types of tags are wastes of space and time. They are meaningless. It is different if you personally are posting something. Then you can add whatever tags you want. But, this is a little different where thousands of people view these images. Like I said, what if everyone were to list whatever irrelevant tags they want? BTW, please tell me how the word "standing" as a tag is relevant to you? I am really curious.

Darrow: The first day – was it a twenty-four hour day? Bryan: I do not know. Darrow: What do you think? Bryan: I do not think about things that I do not think about Darrow: Do you ever think about things you DO think about?

See a blog post about this photo here: http://blog.photography.si.edu/2010/02/08/perspectives/ And thank you, Mr Flikker, for your notes about the trial!