"Dope with Lime"
“Dope with Lime” is a production of the Lillian E. Smith Center at Piedmont College. Through interviews with scholars, artist residents, readers, and more, “Dope with Lime” discusses Lillian E. Smith’s life, work, and continued legacy. “Dope with Lime” was a column that Lillian E. Smith wrote in the pages of the literary journal that she co-edited with her partner Paula Snelling. Colloquially, the phrase referred to cutting the sweetness of Coca-Cola with lime juice. In her columns, Smith would us satire and bite to comment on Southern life and letters. The column was, for all intents and purposes, blog and podcast like, relaying Smith’s thoughts in a conversational and witty manner.
Episodes
November 10, 2024 • 50 mins
In this episode, we speak with actress and director Brenda Bynum and documentary filmmaker Hal Jacobs about the creative work they have done on the life and work of Lillian Smith and on Smith's importance to them.
Brenda Bynum worked, for years, with the Alliance Theater in Atlanta and taught in the theater department at Emory for seventeen years. She is the writer/director/performer of "Jordan is So Chilly," a one-woman show on ...
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October 2, 2024 • 47 mins
In this episode, we conclude our series on Lillian Smith and Religion, examining the intersections of religion, race, class, gender, and sexuality. We are joined by Rev. Dr. Benjamin Boswell, pastor of Myers Park Baptist Church, Rev. John Harrison, pastor of Nacoochee Presbyterian Church, Dr. Jennifer Morrison, Assistant Professor of English at Xavier University Louisiana, Dr. Keri Leigh Merritt, and Rev. Annanda Barclay, co-host o...
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September 25, 2024 • 58 mins
This is the part two in a five-part series examining Lillian Smith's thoughts on religion in relation to issues of race, class, and gender. We are joined by Rev. Annanda Barclay, co-host of the podcast Moral Repair: A Black Exploration of Tech, and Rev. John Harrison, pastor of Nacoochee Presbyterian Church in Sautee Nacoochee, Georgia.
In this episode, we speak with Rev. Barclay and Rev. Harrison about Lillian Smith's essay "The...
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September 18, 2024 • 49 mins
This is the part two in a five-part series examining Lillian Smith's thoughts on religion in relation to issues of race, class, and gender. We are joined by Dr. Keri Leigh Merritt, Rev. Dr. Benjamin Boswell, pastor of Myers Park Baptist Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Rev. John Harrison, pastor of Nacoochee Presbyterian Church in Sautee Nacoochee, Georgia.
In this episode, we speak with Dr. Merritt, Rev. Dr. Boswell and ...
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September 11, 2024 • 57 mins
This is the part two in a five-part series examining Lillian Smith's thoughts on religion in relation to issues of race, class, and gender. We are joined by Dr. Jennifer Morrison, Assistant Professor of English at Xavier University Louisiana, Rev. Dr. Benjamin Boswell, pastor of Myers Park Baptist Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Rev. John Harrison, pastor of Nacoochee Presbyterian Church in Sautee Nacoochee, Georgia.
In ...
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September 4, 2024 • 57 mins
This is the first in a five-part series examining Lillian Smith's thoughts on religion in relation to issues of race, class, and gender. We are joined, in each of these episodes, by Rev. Dr. Benjamin Boswell, pastor of Myers Park Baptist Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Rev. John Harrison, pastor of Nacoochee Presbyterian Church in Sautee Nacoochee, Georgia.
In this episode, we speak with Rev. Dr. Boswell and Rev. Harriso...
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July 24, 2024 • 17 mins
This episode is a small selection of recordings from the Laurel Falls Camp Collection Recordings, a collection of 105 digitized recordings from 78-rpm lacquer discs and magnetic tapes we discovered at the center. This recording will be part of a year-long exhibit on the life and work of Lillian E. Smith at the Mason Scharfenstein Museum at Piedmont University. The exhibit will debut on September 5, 2024.
You can find the recordin...
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March 21, 2024 • 79 mins
This episode is a recording of "Celebrating Lillian E. Smith," an event that took place on March 20, 2024, at the Mason-Scharfenstein Museum of Art at Piedmont University.
LES Center director Dr. Matthew Teutsch led a panel discussion on Smith's legacy and importance with Rev. Dr. Benjamin Boswell, Dr. Keri Leigh Merritt, and Dr. Jennifer Morrison. They engaged in a wide-ranging conversation about Smith's work, her pedagogy, and ...
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March 7, 2024 • 68 mins
In this episode, we speak with Dr. Karen Cox, Professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is the author of multiple books, including "Dixie’s Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture" and "Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture." Her current book project explores the Rhythm Club fire, which took the lives of more t...
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February 28, 2024 • 63 mins
In this episode, we speak with Dr. Michael Dando, Assistant Professor of Communication, Arts, and Literature at St. Cloud State University. Dando is an award-winning author, artist, educator, and scholar with over twenty years of experience in the classroom. His research and pedagogy explores ways that teachers and students collaborate with communities to create collective, civically engaged democratic opportunities for social just...
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February 21, 2024 • 64 mins
In this episode, we speak with Ravi Howard, Assistant Professor of English at Florida State University. Howard served on the Lillian E. Smith Center's Board. As well, he is an award winning author, receiving the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence for his 2008 novel "Like Trees, Walking." In 2015, he published "Driving the King." His work has appeared in Salon, The New York Times, and elsewhere. We speak about his time w...
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February 13, 2024 • 53 mins
In this episode, we speak with Dr. Meredith McCarroll, an educator, author, and writing coach. Her work focuses on Appalachia, and her publications include "Un-White: Appalachia, Race, and Film" (UGA Press) and "Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy" (WVU Press). We speak about how McCarroll had to leave Appalachia to learn about it and Lillian Smith, her journey to activism, and the contentious definitions re...
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September 12, 2023 • 37 mins
In this episode, we speak with artist and writer Tommye McClure Scanlin. She taught art for decades at the University of North Georgia, and is a world-renowned weaver. We speak with her about the importance of artist institutions on Northeast Georgia, her connection to the Lillian E. Smith Center, and the ways that the center has influenced her own art.
Scanlin supports the McClure-Scanlin Visual Artist Residency Award, one of the...
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August 31, 2023 • 37 mins
In this episode, we speak with Dr. Kamala Dutt, Professor Emerita in the Department of Pathology at Morehouse School of Medicine. She has published three collections of short stories and one novella in Hindi and one poetry collection in English.
She has had residencies at the Lillian E. Smith Center for over two decades. We speak about the intersections of literature and science, her memories of her time at the center, specifical...
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August 25, 2023 • 18 mins
In this episode, our director Dr. Matthew Teutsch explores the correlation between civil rights movements across the United States and the 1967 uprising in Newark. It delves into the socio-political climate, racial tensions, and police brutality that fueled the unrest, as well as the consequential aftermath. Furthermore, it highlights the crucial role of photographer Bud Lee in documenting the Newark uprising.
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July 13, 2023 • 40 mins
In this episode, we speak with Aaron McMullin, the 2023 recipient of the Emily Pierce Graduate Student Residency Award. Aaron is completing her MFA at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, and she is constructing the Legacy Quilt Project as part of her program. We spoke with Aaron about the Legacy Quilt, her time as a Fulbrighter in India, and about the impact of the residency on her work.
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June 5, 2023 • 34 mins
In this episode, we speak with Dr. Mae Claxton, Professor of English at Western Carolina University. She teaches classes in Southern, Appalachian, and Native American literature, and her scholarship focuses primarily on Eudora Welty, but she has recently expanded her interests to Horace Kephart, Appalachian women writers, and the Native South.
Her current project looks at Appalachian activist women writers of the 20th century, spe...
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March 22, 2023 • 35 mins
In this episode, we discuss the LES Center's upcoming P-12 institute "The Civil Rights Movement and the Nine-Word Problem." This is an institute open for regional (Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina) educators to participate in a week-long program (June 12-16, 2023) at the LES Center with facilitators Dr. Rev. Benjamin Boswell, Dr. Keri Leigh Merritt, and Dr. Jennifer Morrison.
Participants in the institute receive a $200 st...
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March 1, 2023 • 31 mins
In this episode, we speak with Sally Stanhope about. "The Civil Rights Movement in Northeast Georgia," last year's P-12 professional development institute at the Lillian E. Smith Center. We speak with her about what she took away from the institute and why she would encourage educators to attend this year's institute, "The Civil Rights Movement and the Nine-Word Problem."
Stanthope has 18 years of teaching experience at various l...
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February 23, 2023 • 51 mins
In this episode, we speak with Megan Butchart about the literary journal that Lillian Smith and Paula Snelling published from Screamer Mountain from 1936-1945. Megan is a recent graduate of the University of Alberta where she received her M.A. in English. Her thesis was "The Literary Activism of Lillian Smith and Paula Snelling’s Little Magazine South Today." We spoke with Megan about the importance of the journal, the contributors...
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