In October the Mountain View Arts Alliance will be honoring the memory of Pete Borden, a longtime East Cobb resident who was actively involved in community theater.
The memorial event will take place Oct. 10 from 7-9 p.m. at The Art Place (3330 Sandy Plains Road), and will include the unveiling of a memorial stone hand crafted by local artist Julie Mazzoni.
Borden died in March at the age of 81 from lung cancer.
Born in Texas and a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, Borden was a brick mason by profession and active in Cobb theater organizations, including The Art Place, as a playwright, director and actor. He also was a member of the Catholic Church of St. Ann in East Cobb.
Borden also wrote a regular column for many years in The Marietta Daily Journal and advocated for local arts and theater organizations in that space.
Shortly after his death, the MDJ reprinted one of Borden’s columns from 2012, as he recalled an early 1990s flap on the Cobb Board of Commissioners over arts funding and an anti-gay resolution that cost Cobb County its official 1996 Olympics participation.
In a message on its Facebook page about the memorial event, the MVAA said:
If you would like to perform a scene or song or skit or even a roast tributing Pete, please advise and we will put together a program.
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