Hopsewee Plantation presents
 Lee Smith's

"On Agate Hill"

—Barbara Bates Smith in a one-woman play

with Jeff Sebens' music—

September 5, 2008 at 7:00

The two Smiths seem made for each other. Barbara is a marvel as she seamlessly slips from character to character. But mostly she is our heroine Molly, moving from a wrecked plantation to a range of sites in over a half-century's time.—Asheville Citizen-Times

This adaptation is magnificent. It goes right to the  heart of the story.                                                             —Lee Smith

Your Agate Hill piece is poetry—Kay Byer, NC Poet Laureate

 Barbara Bates Smith is living proof that books can change lives.                                                     —The Winchester Star

An unqualified rave to this actress & her musician for their "On Agate Hill" production!… Thoroughly engaging…   
—Rob Neufeld, Director, "Together We Read"

Set among the ashes of the Civil War, Lee Smith’s new novel brings a dead world blazingly to life… a mysterious benefactor, a wrecked plantation, a school for young ladies, and music-lovin’ mountain folk.

—Donna Rifkin, The Washington Post