The Marietta History Center is offering free admission Saturday, Jan. 15, in observance of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.
The center is conducting Diverse Cobb programming that includes the “Lemon Street Chroncles,” a new oral history DVD about the Lemon Street High School.
It was Cobb County’s only all-black high school until 1967, when segregation in public schools in Cobb and Marietta ended.
The DVD, created by alumnus Tim Penn, includes interviews with other graduates and will be screened several times on Saturday.
Also featured at the museum is “Marietta 1899: Color Captured in Black & White.” It’s a special exhibit of the work of New York photographer James Shaw, who visited Marietta in 1899. The exhibit includes images of the Marietta Square, the Marietta National Cemetery, Kennesaw Avenue, Kennesaw Mountain and rural Cobb County.
Shaw’s visit included the Federal Memorial Day celebration, with many of those in attendance being African-American.
“A truer version of life as it was, undiluted by the whitewashing of history,” the exhibit states. “While bias of a white perspective remains, Shaw chose to include the activities of both races, thus presenting multiple shades of color in black and white photography.”
That exhibit also will be featured at the museum. from May 19-28.
The Marietta Museum of History will have free admission from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. next Saturday. Screenings of the “Lemon Street Chronicles,” which lasts an hour and a half, are at 10 a.m., 12 p.m. and 2 p.m.
The museum is located at 1 Depot Street, Marietta. For more information click here.
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