Noticing the re-make of Inherit the Wind was on TV, and not having seen the 1960 version since I was in 10th Grade.......I watched a few minutes of the 1999 movie re-make of Jerome Lawrence's great play; quickly, thinking 'Why did 'they' bother to make a 'new' version? To remake it 'in color'....or with 'newer actors'? The minutes that I watched, dredged up memories of my asking 'Mrs. Burke', my 10th grade Biology Teacher some questions about both the Film,...that had been 'condemned' in Alabama and withdrawn from The Lyric Theater that year.....and about 'Evolution'......Mrs. Burke asked me to join her in 'the dissection room'...appropriately!.....and said "you're right, Reeder, but I'd be fired from the School System if I admitted that in front of others...." Living in Rocket City", one would think that Science and Truth would be priorities in "High" school.....T'warn't that way until after the Social Revolution that was soon to sweep through the minds of American Youth....just a couple of years in the Future......In 1957, I was taken from my Jr. High School classroom...to the badminton court, and beaten ........with a wooden paddle....... for refusing to "pray" in 8th grade Home Room...."Just gimme some Truth", I thought...... But 'You have to find out....for yourself'....especially when you have to share the Cave, not with Plato, but some club-wielding Neanderthals.......
