Herblock draws a connection between Tennessee’s law against teaching evolution and the marriage of nine-year-old Eunice Winstead to twenty-two-year-old Charlie Johns in Sneedville, Tennessee. The wedding, which had occurred by the side of a road without ado, created a hullabaloo, and for Herblock it evoked the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial, in which a Tennessee teacher was convicted for teaching evolution. The Tennessee state legislature immediately instituted a minimum marriage age of fourteen, while ministers decried the marriage as “a crime against society.” The couple remained married and eventually raised nine children.