Virtual Events
6-6:55AM Virtual HIIT
8:30-9:30AM Virtual Power Training
10:30-11:15AM Play and Learn with the Library
11AM-12PM All Levels Yoga Virtual
4-5PM Friday Crafternoons
9:45AM or 10AM Preschool Nature Nuts @ Lookout Mountain Nature Center
2-3PM Wild Ideas with Cooking for Teens
Real World Events
Miners Alley is opening a new play this weekend! This is their first production since the beginning of the pandemic. They’re offering both in-person and on-demand tickets.
Join a Denver man known only as ‘The Son’ on his wild bike ride to hell in one of the most-acclaimed Off-Broadway plays of 2017. We’d all like to believe that when the time comes to step up and care for our aging parents, we’ll be up to the responsibility. But what if that mother abandoned you when you were 13, and your inheritance now is the financial and emotional burden that comes with her return to your life? The Treasurer is a non-stop, darkly funny and sharply intimate story that explores the hell of a guilty conscience.
TONIGHT IS SOLD OUT, but starting tomorrow and running through August 7th, plan to see it, either at the theater or at home.
Meanwhile, just up the hill at Foothills Art Center they’ll be celebrating the culmination of ARTSWEEK with their annual Unframed Gala. That’s also SOLD OUT.
Have fun tonight, everyone!
10AM-12PM Rocky Mountain Quilt Study Group @ Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum
1-2PM The Friday Tour @ Colorado Railroad Museum
3PM Vaccine, License & Microchip Clinic @ Foothills Animal Shelter
4-6PM Snail Trail Al Fresco Class @ Golden Quilt Company
6-8PM Community Friday Night @ Pranatonic (most Fridays)
6PM Unframed Gala @ Buffalo Rose SOLD OUT!
7:30PM OPENING NIGHT – The Treasurer @ Miners Alley Playhouse SOLD OUT!
LIVE MUSIC:
5PM Night Wolf @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
5PM Roots & Rhythm @ Goosetown Station
6PM Falling Rock @ Wrigley’s
9PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern
Golden History Moment
The July 16, 1974 Golden Transcript reported that School of Mines President Guy McBride was rejecting a request by students to build a monument to their late friend and mentor, Den Galbraith. The proposed monument would have been built of native stone, topped by a bronze plaque, and placed near Stratton Hall.
Who was Den Galbraith? He grew up in California and was “invited” to participate in World War II, serving as a tank commander in Patton’s Third Army, and participating in the Battle of the Bulge. After the war, two friends were planning to attend the School of Mines. They invited him to go with them, so he did. They asked what he wanted to study, and he said he’d take whatever they were taking. Thus, he became a mining geologist. After graduation he worked in oil exploration and uranium prospecting.
His real interests, though, lay in writing and community participation. He wrote a series of 26 articles about Golden history for the Golden Transcript. He wrote for national magazines such as True West. He wrote romantic western novels that he wouldn’t show anyone. He volunteered so relentlessly at the fledgling Foothills Arts Center that he was named their Director for the first two years (an unpaid position). He also served on the board of the Symphony. He was acting as a project advisor for a group of Mines student when he suddenly died of a stroke at the age of 56 on April 10, 1974.
Though the on-campus memorial was nixed, he was honored in other ways. The Den Galbraith Memorial Scholarship provides $2,000 a year for four years for a Golden High School Student attending the School of Mines.
His best memorial was devised in 1977. Tom Lyons of the Golden Landmarks Association discovered that the mountain on the north side of the mouth of Clear Creek Canyon was unnamed. He learned that the responsibility for naming mountains fell to the United States Board on Geographic Names. The guidelines stated that a mountain had to be unnamed, must be near the location where the honoree accomplished important things, and that the honoree must no longer be living. His application to name one of Golden’s mountains after Den Galbraith was approved.
Mt. Galbraith Park is now one of the most popular hiking areas in the Jefferson County Open Space system.
Thanks to the Golden History Museum for funding the online collection of historic newspapers.
