WHAT’S HAPPENING IN GOLDEN TODAY?
Wild West Walking Tour
9-9:55AM Silver Sneakers Classic (Virtual)
9:15-9:45AM Baby Time @ Golden Library
10-10:30AM Call In: Mid-Morning Meditation (Virtual)
10AM and 1PM Wild West Short Tour
10-12PM DeLong Park Weed Busters @ DeLong Park
12:30-1:30PM GWiB Book Club @ Golden Mill
3-9PM Cheese Night with Cheese Ranch @ Mountain Toad
3:30-5PM Free Legal Self-Help Clinic @ Golden Library
5PM Yappy Hour @ Golden Mill
6PM Run Club @ Runners Roost
6-7PM Ukulele Thursdays @ Golden Library
6-8PM Golden Community Conversation
7PM Golden Ghosts & Ghouls – Kids Ghost Tour
7PM Winning Strategies for Going Solar Despite Time-of-Use Rates @ Jefferson Unitarian Church
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CITY MEETINGS
9AM Public Art Commission Meeting @ City Hall
The PAC will discuss a possible art installation on the Clear Creek/Grant Terry Trail. Parks & Rec has earmarked $20K for this purpose. PAC members will discuss how they might support the project. They will consider a grant request for $2,325 to continue funding the MorningStArt meetups that take place on the first Friday of the month. Thirteen Itty-Bitty Art Pieces have been installed in and around Parfet Park. The City will issue a media alert and begin offering tours later this month. One of the Commissioners attended Burning Man and will tell the group about the art she saw there (photos included in the meeting packet).
This group will hold a board retreat on October 26th. They will discuss the Community Art Proposal process and the Commission’s involvement in the proposed Arts and Culture Advisory Board.
4:30-6PM REDI Task Force Meeting @ City Hall
7PM Parks & Recreation Advisory Board Study Session/Tour of the Golf Course @ Fossil Trace Golf Club
LIVE MUSIC
5-8PM Josh Blackburn @ Golden Mill
5-9PM Mad Millie Band @ Wrigley’s
5:30PM Junkyard Dogs @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
5:30PM Dawn Hunters @ Over Yonder
6-9PM Teague Starbuck @ Mountain Toad
6PM Dorado @ New Terrain Brewing
6-9PM Derek Hall @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
7PM Masakazu Ito in Solo Guitar Concert @ Colorado School of Mines
8PM Karaoke @ Rock Rest Lodge
GOLDEN HISTORY MOMENT
October 1-7 is National Newspaper Week. Inspired by this, I decided to write today about our home town newspaper, the Golden Transcript.
George West started the Transcript in 1866. He was a Civil War veteran and a deeply committed Golden booster. According to his grandson, Neil West Kimball, “he wished the newspaper to be ‘a family affair;’ and he realized his wish, for his two sons, his daughter, his son-in-law, daughter-in-law, and grandson all held executive positions on the publication. His wife wrote for newspapers and magazines under the name of Kate Warrenton.”
George West himself (or “Captain West,” as his contemporaries called him) ran the paper from 1866 until his death in 1906. After his death, his wife (Eliza) became the President of the company, while at various times their son (Harley), son-in-law (George Kimball), and grandson (Neil West Kimbell) worked as editors. After Eliza’s death in 1920, Harley became the owner/publisher.
When Harley died in 1927, his wife Vera inherited the paper. Vera took an active management role, but in 1929 she remarried and moved to Nebraska. She retained ownership and wrote a regular column. Her second husband, Fleet Parsons, was a Mines graduate. After several years, the two moved back to Golden, and Fleet became the paper’s editor while Vera remained the owner/publisher.
When Vera died in 1954, Fleet became the owner of the Transcript. He remarried, and when he died in 1959, his widow sold the paper.
Although the family connection became increasingly tenuous, the Transcript did stay in the family from 1866-1959. More importantly, it’s still in publication today, when so many other newspapers have vanished.
Thanks to the Golden History Museum for providing the online cache of historic Transcripts, and to the Golden Transcript for documenting our history since 1866!
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