“North Carolina’s closest version of the Scopes Monkey Trial of Tennessee [was] Pentuff v. Park…. J.R. Pentuff, a [Concord] minister who was outspoken in opposition to Darwinism, was lampooned in a Raleigh newspaper [in 1926] … and he sued for $60,000 in damages…. “A lot of embarrassing facts came out about Rev. Pentuff during the [...]
