Arts & Crafts, D&D, Coffee with an Artist, Rails and Cocktails, Music, and a Prize-Winning Stallion

*Golden Eye Candy – Chris Davell – Admiring the Striations – click to enlarge*

COVID Updates

% of Jeffco residents (12+) who have received at least one shot–source

From the JCPH website: “Data will not be updated again until June 7th, while we transfer systems.”

COVID Vaccine Appointments
State of Colorado: Where You Can Get Vaccinated
Jeffco Public Health Vaccine Call Center: 303-239-7000
State Vaccine Hotline: 1-877-268-2926.

Golden Testing Sites
Mines COVID Testing | Jeffco Fairgrounds COVID Testing

More Public Health References
Sign up for exposure notifications | CDC | Colorado | Jefferson County | City of Golden

Virtual Events

6-6:55AM Virtual HIIT
8:30-9:30AM Virtual Power Training
10:30-11:15AM Play and Learn with the Library
11:40AM-12:30PM All Levels Yoga Virtual
3-4:30PM Vaccine, License & Microchip Clinic @ Foothills Animal Shelter
4-5PM Friday Crafternoons
2-4PM Chaos Control – Become a Dungeons and Dragons Master
2-3PM Art for Teens

Real World Events

NOTE: THE CITY’S BIKE LIBRARY IS NOT OPEN YET, DUE TO STAFFING SHORTAGES.

8-9AM Morning Start: An Artist Coffee Meetup with Mary Kay Samouce
7:30PM Colorado Rails and Cocktails: Running a 19^th Century Railroad in the 21^st Century

LIVE MUSIC:
11AM Tucker Cunningham at Golden Mill
3PM Jesh Yancey & The High Hopes at Coda Brewing
6PM Wood Belly @ New Terrain Brewing
6PM Falling Rock at Wrigley’s
7PM Last Men on Earth @ Buffalo Rose (main venue)
9PM Karaoke at Ace Hi Tavern

Golden History Moment

*Colorado State Industrial School, in 1928 – Denver Public Library Western History Collection – click to enlarge*

The State Industrial School was founded in Golden in 1881. The School provided vocational training for boys. Over time, the options included broom making, stenography, carpentry, and blacksmithing. The boys also learned about agriculture by running a working farm.

The School initially had 5 acres of land, but by 1888, they had purchased an additional 40 acres. They laid out an extensive garden. An 1893 Transcript article said the school had 37 acres in cultivation, including garden, orchard, and vineyard. They grew apples, plums, pears, cherries, grapes, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, currants, and gooseberries. They also cultivated watermelons, muskmelons, cantaloupe, rhubarb, tomatoes, turnips, cabbage, beets, parsnips, beans, squash, pumpkins, sweet corn, lettuce, spinach onions, asparagus, and cucumbers. They acquired still more land and grew fields of corn, alfalfa, and oats.

*Boys showing workhorses (possibly Percherons) at the Industrial School – Denver Public Library Western History Collection – click to enlarge*

They also raised livestock–horses, cattle, hogs, and chickens. The boys took their animals to the State Fair in Pueblo and the National Western Stock Show in Denver, and regularly won prize money.

*Advertisement from the June 4, 1914 Colorado Transcript*

107 Years Ago
The June 4, 1914 Colorado Transcript included this display ad, offering stud service from the School’s award winning Percheron stallion. This horse had been a consistent prize-winner since the School acquired it in 1911.

The Golden Transcript (originally called the Colorado Transcript) has been publishing since 1866. The Golden History Museum has been working on digitizing the historic issues. You’ll find old Transcripts online at coloradohistoricnewspapers.org.