Standing-room-only crowd enjoying the Readers Theater production of
Inherit The Wind, by Jerome Lawrence, and given by the Alleghany Community Theatre – on a hot July afternoon in 2007, at the Alleghany County Courthouse.
Ed Adams questions a witness while Richard Doughton presides as judge. Dan Murray played the attorney for the defense. Susie Gamble played the Clerk of the Court and Randy Boger played the Bailiff.
Each of these “actors” played roles that they acted out every day of their professional lives. This and the venue of the actual Alleghany courtroom added realism to the drama that featured the 1925 Scopes “Monkey” Trial.
The crowd filled the balcony at, what was probably, one of the few events held here that everyone went home happy!
— Photos by Imaging Specialists.
