The "Classic City" Goes Modern New Local Book Captures Athens Through Vintage Images
Patrick Garbin, Athens native and graduate of the University of Georgia, has authored a new book from Arcadia Publishing's Images of Modern America Series, Athens, which contains over 160 images from the 1960's to present day.
- Athens-Clarke County, GA (1888PressRelease) September 19, 2014 - Local UGA football history buff Patrick Garbin has lived in the Athens area his entire life. Through more than 160 images from nearly 20 different sources, the author captures his hometown's progress from the 1960s to present day in Athens, the latest addition to Arcadia Publishing's new Images of Modern America series.
From the early 1960s to present, perhaps no college town in America has changed as much as Athens, Georgia. Over the course of 50 years, the city experienced desegregation at all levels of education, encountered all types of activism and demonstrations, and established an unparalleled music scene that still flourishes. Beginning in the 1980s, University of Georgia athletic teams began winning national championships and continue to do so, the 1996 Olympics came to Athens, and the downtown district grew from a retail center to a 24-hour central city with more restaurants, bars, and eclectic shops than one can count.
"Readers will be hard pressed to find a notable Athens moment, person, event, or venue of the 'modern' era not pictured and/or mentioned in the book," Garbin says. "Athens is no longer a sleepy, small college town as it once existed, but truly the 'Classic City' in every sense of the name."
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Athens
by Patrick Garbin
Images of Modern America Series
Price: $22.99
96 pages/ soft cover
Available: September 8, 2014.
Author inquires contact:
Crystal Murray
843.853.2070 x216
cmurray ( @ ) arcadiapublishing dot com dot
Meet Patrick Garbin
Author of Athens
Patrick Garbin is a freelance journalist, who was born, raised, and currently lives in the Athens area. A graduate of the University of Georgia, as well, he is considered perhaps the foremost historian on UGA football.
Garbin has authored six books on the subject, maintains the About Them Dawgs! Blawg-the only website focusing on the history of the Bulldogs' football program-and has contributed articles and research to a number of media outlets, magazines, and newspapers. In addition, he serves on the board of Books for Keeps-a nonprofit based in Athens which gives books to children in the state of Georgia whose reading opportunities outside of school might be otherwise limited.
Garbin and his wife, Elizabeth, have two children: Trip and Rebecca. You can visit his website at www.patrickgarbin.com.
What lasting impact do you hope your book will leave?
Through its photographs and their captions, there is plenty to discover regarding Athens's modern history beyond what readers originally knew of the Classic City, while recognizing Athens is a place that is undoubtedly a real city-one that is "classic" in so many ways beyond its name and architecture.
Crystal Murray
843.853.2070 x216
cmurray ( @ ) arcadiapublishing dot com.
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