History is in the making at Piedmont College, where the play “Lillian Smith’s Strange Fruit” is returning to the stage 70 years after its Broadway premiere. Based on Smith’s bold debut novel, the play follows an interracial relationship in a small 1920s Georgia town and speaks to the effects of hate and separation on the lives of people and their communities. Piedmont’s Department of Theatre and Lillian E. Smith Center are working with New York director Thom Fogarty to restore the play to Smith’s original vision for an October run.