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.

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.