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The Lillian E. Smith Foundation, Inc. was established to honor the memory of Lillian E. Smith, one of this country's eminent writers. Map to the LES Center A visual survey of the LES Center's buildings and ruins of the camp. |
| The Lillian E. Smith Center for Creative Arts The mission of The Lillian E. Smith Center for Creative Arts is to offer a place where gifted creative artists and scholars in various disciplines may find the conditions of quiet solitude and privacy in which to pursue their work in the mountains of North East Georgia. |
Visit the Lillian Smith's home site which has joined a distinguished group of southern writer's home sites to form a trail. THE TRI-STATE SOUTHERN LITERARY TRAIL (Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi)as well as the North East Georgia Arts Tour |
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Applications for the summer of 2010 are now being taken. Residencies open mid May and close mid August. Click here for Residence application form in Adobe PDF format. |
2008 Lillian Smith Books Awards were presented at the AJC Decatur Book Festival, Sunday, August 31, 2008 |
| Laurel Falls Camp for Girls
The memory of Laurel Falls Camp for Girls, Rabun County, North Georgia, which was directed by Lilllian Smith, continues to hold a
special place in the hearts of the many woman who came to the mountains as young women in the
1920s, 1930s, and 1940s and enjoyed the time they spent at the camp.
| Miss Lil's Camp the movie by Suzanne Niedland and Anberin Pasha has won a number of film festival awards in the past year and was shown at the Atlanta Film Festival. Public Broadcasting selected it for national distribution. Georgia PBS has aired it several times recently. Visit their site and find out more about this evocative film and it's production. |
Clayton weather. |
Joan Ross Sorkin's opera version of STRANGE FRUIT, based on Lillian Smith's best selling novel by the same name, had it's premiere performance, June 15th, 2007 at 8:00 pm and June 17th at 2:00 pm, by the Longleaf Opera company in the new performing arts center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. |
Interior Ester Cottage |
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