Coauthor Joe Kirby has covered the city for nearly a quarter century as a reporter, editor, and columnist for the Marietta Daily Journal. Coauthor Damien A. Guarnieri was the newspaper's chief of photography for a decade and now shoots for Lockheed Martin in Marietta.
Title: 'Marietta Revisited' explores the city through photographs
Author: Marcus E. Howard Publisher: The Marietta Daily Journal
Date: 12/7/09
Did you know that the bronze statue of former U.S. Sen. Alexander
Stephens Clay originally stood on the east side of Marietta Square
as opposed to its present west side location? Did you know that the
site of the Walker School at Cobb Parkway and Allgood Road used to
be an oat field?
In the new book, Marietta Revisited, the city of Marietta's
forgotten history is revealed in a combination of historic and
modern photographs. Marietta Daily Journal editorial page editor
and columnist Joe Kirby, and former Journal photography chief
Damien A. Guarnieri, are co-authors of the 96-page book that is
published by Arcadia Publishing.
The book is available for $21.99 at bookstores, local museum gift
shops, from the authors themselves and at
www.cobbhistorybooks.com.
Marietta Revisited contrasts modern photographs with historic
images, which together chronicle how the city has changed, or in
some cases, not changed. It's a follow-up to Kirby and Guarnieri's
previous book, Marietta: Then & Now, published in 2007.
Kirby, who began working at the Journal in 1987 as a city
hall/general assignment reporter, said their first book was so much
fun and so well received that they decided to collaborate on
another. Marietta: Then & Now is presently in its third
edition.
It's a lot of fun, Kirby said. I enjoy the research, and I enjoy
learning about Cobb County history.
As a photographer for more than a decade at the Journal, Guarnieri
chronicled some of Marietta's most memorable events. For the book,
he said he approached the project as a sort of photographic
scavenger hunt.
It wouldn't have been unusual for people to see me walking all over
Marietta this past spring with my camera in one hand and
photocopies of old photos in the other, with me trying to line up
my camera with the same angle as the old photo, said Guarnieri, who
now takes pictures for Lockheed Martin.
He said he even tried to take into account the type of lens the
photographer used when taking the old photo.
If there were people crossing the street in the old photo, I tried
to get people crossing the street in the same place as the old
photo, he said. Readers can try to find all the little details that
I tried to get the same in both photos.
There are a total of about 160 photos in the book. Photos collected
from residents in a photo drive by the Marietta Museum of History
form the basis of the new book. Kirby credited the museum's
founder, Dan Cox, for loaning photos, as well as Journal Publisher
Otis A. Brumby Jr., Journal columnist Bill Kinney, Guy Northcutt
Jr., Philip Goldstein, Dr. Tom Scott and the Manning family.
Some pictures are real interesting, but you don't know much about
them, so you do have to scrounge around and see what you can come
up with, Kirby said about writing the book.
The Cobb County Library and local history books were among his
primary sources.
In 2008, Kirby wrote, The Bell Bomber Plant, which tells the story
of the old Bell plant where B-29 Superfortress bombers were
assembled during World War II. With the publication of Marietta
Revisited - which debuts as the city celebrates its 175th
anniversary - he has been speaking about the book to various civic
clubs, churches and organizations.
He, Guarnieri and several other authors will be signing books at
the Marietta Museum of History's Meet the Author event from 5 p.m.
to 7 p.m. Friday at 1 Depot St. in Marietta. The event is free to
the public and features book signings.
Title: Great Christmas Present
Author: Staff Writer
Publisher: Brightside News
Date: November 2009 New from Arcadia Publishing is Marietta
Revisited, by local authors and newspaper veterans Joe Kirby and
Damien Guarnieri. Marietta Revisited is part of Arcadia's popular
Then & Now series and contrasts modern day photos with historic
images that chronicle the area's past. Marietta is one of the
largest and most historic cities in northwest Georgia. Some of that
history has been preserved but much of it, unfortunately, has been
lost to progress, as the photographs in Then and Now: Marietta
Revisited attest. Virtually all of the photos in the book are from
local sources Authors have nearly 35 years experience covering
Marietta and Cobb County with the Marietta Daily Journal
Photographer Damien Guarnieri tried to recreate the mood and
settings of the original shots This is the sequel to their very
popular Then & Now: Marietta. The price is $21.95 and is available
directly from the authors, in local bookstores and online. Captured
above Joe Kirby and Damien Guarnieri.
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