Marietta is one of the oldest and most picturesque cities in northwest Georgia, and its unique qualities are both timeless and evolving, to which the pictures in Then & Now: Marietta attest.

Coauthor Joe Kirby has covered the city for more than two decades as a reporter, editor, and columnist for the Marietta Daily Journal, and coauthor Damien A. Guarnieri was the newspaper's chief of photography for the past decade.