What’s Happening in Golden Today?
8AM Saturday Morning Run and Social Walk @ Golden History Park
10AM-3PM Brunch at the Rose @ Buffalo Rose
10AM-noon Breakfast Burritos @ The Golden Mill
10-11AM Family Craft Day @ Mines Museum
10AM-4PM Painting Mountains with Janet Nunn @ Foothills Art Center
10AM-3PM Saturday Train Rides @ Colorado Railroad Museum
10AM and 1PM Wild West Walking History Tour
10:15AM Family Time @ Golden Library
12-1:00PM Detoxify Your Life @ Natural Grocers
1-3PM PAWS for Reading @ Golden Library
1-3PM Daddy Daughter Date @ Morris & Mae
1-6PM Galentine’s Day Celebration @ Truly Bohotique
12PM Sound & Customization Workshop @ Avalanche Harley Davidson
1PM Mother Goose @ Miners Alley Playhouse
4PM Wild West Pub Crawl
6-10PM Valentine’s Dance @ VFW Post 4717
7:30PM The Great American Trailer Park Musical @ Miners Alley Playhouse
Live Music
11AM-2PM Jon Eric Farmer @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
12PM Lucas Wolf @ Tributary Food Hall
2PM Dave Frisk and Friends @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
5-8PM Live Music @ Eddy Taproom
5-8PM Alibi Trio @ Golden Mill
5:30-7:30PM Night Routine @ Goosetown Station
7-10PM Conal Rosanblam @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
7PM Cold Replay & Devil Inxside @ Buffalo Rose (main venue)
7-10PM Derek Hall @ Morris & Mae
9PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern
Celebrating Heart and Soul of Golden Month
GOLDEN CULTURAL ALLIANCE MEMBER: THE GOLDEN LIBRARY
114 Years Ago
The February 11, 1909 Colorado Transcript reported that the Golden Improvement Club planned to establish a Boy’s Reading Room. A stationery company had offered to contribute one hundred books and prominent citizen Richard Broad promised an additional twenty-five. They anticipated many other book donations; however, they needed to fund a building to accommodate the books (and the boys).
The conversation continued throughout that year, as duly reported in the Transcript. The vision grew to include a gymnasium and a swimming pool, but concrete plans continued to elude the group, and the idea eventually fizzled out.
In 1913, the combined women’s clubs of Golden–Bay View, Golden Fortnightly, the Progressive Club, and Thursday Musicales–took up the challenge.
A movement is on foot among the various ladies clubs of Golden to unite in the effort to have a club building erected with commodious rooms which can be used as meeting places for all the clubs. It is also their hope to get a library started here, and have one room of the proposed new building used as a reading room. Committees have been appointed and it is believed action will be taken in a short time.
Colorado Transcript – April 17, 1913
The ladies led a massive fund-raising campaign and, in less than a year, opened a library for girls as well as boys–and grown-ups too.
108 Years Ago
The February 11, 1915 Colorado Transcript reported that “The Golden Library and Improvement association is nearing the close of its first year as an incorporated body.” The article reported that the association had purchased a building, furnished it, and acquired 2700 books and periodicals.
(Let’s hear it for the ladies!)
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!
