WHAT’S HAPPENING IN GOLDEN TODAY?
6-6:55AM Cardio Lift Interval (Virtual)
8-8:55AM Tai Chi (Virtual)
8:30-9:30AM Power Training (Virtual)
9AM Golden Walks – Wednesday Morning Celebrating Life @ Golden Library
9-10AM Golden Startup Coffee @ Morris & Mae
10:15-10:45AM Toddler Time @ Golden Library
10-10:55AM All Levels Yoga (Virtual)
1PM Wild West Walking Tour
1PM Wild West Short Tour
3-5PM Hard Times Writing Workshop (Virtual)
5:30PM Golden High School PTA Meeting @ Golden High School
6-7:30PM Bingo Night @ American Legion Post 21
6:30PM Historic Preservation Board Meeting @ City Hall
Golden’s Historic Districts are threatened. In recent months, the Historic Preservation Board has been asked for several “Certificates of Appropriateness” for full or partial demolitions of some very old houses. Some homeowners like living in a charming historic district amongst modestly-sized Victorian homes, but prefer to replace the small, inconvenient home on their own property with a large, modern one.
At present, there’s very little that the Historic Preservation Board can do to prevent or discourage demolition of a historic home. Tonight, they will discuss asking City Council to provide them with a better set of tools that would help them preserve our historic neighborhoods.
See the complete calendar of events.
LIVE MUSIC
4-8PM Chrispy@ Mountain Toad
5-9PM Open Mic @ Cannonball Creek
6-9PM Sage Leary & Austin Skalecki @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
6-9PM Jordan Yewey @ Miners Saloon
GOLDEN HISTORY MOMENT
141 Years Ago
The May 10, 1882 Colorado Transcript provided this cautionary tale:
Last Wednesday night Mr. and Mrs. Watt. Cunningham, who reside in North Golden, in the vicinity of the Omaha House, were awakened from their slumbers by a noise that very greatly indicated the close proximity of an intruder upon their domestic seclusion. Mrs. Cunningham first heard the noise and aroused her husband with an emphatic shake and the dreadful information that a man was concealed under the bed.
Mr. Cunningham is a practical sort of a man and was at first inclined to discredit his wife’s statement, but a few moments careful listening brought to his ears the unmistakable heavy breathing of some one directly beneath them. He was in a dilemma. To jump out and face the intruder with his battery of small arms seemed to him sheer madness, while to remain in bed was to leave the bold bad burglar master of the situation.
While thoughtfully debating his precarious location his wife raised the siege by leaping out of bed and rushing into an adjoining room. Procuring a hatchet and a gun, and finding her husband already engaged in a scuffle with the burglar she entered into combat with a spirit and bravery of a modern Joan of Arc. The intruder was soon overpowered, secured and his life probably saved by Mr. Cunningham, who, with great difficulty, restrained Mrs. Cunningham from dispatching him then and there.
The article goes on to say that they contacted the town’s night watchman, who put him in jail, where he would remain until the next session of the district court. “In the mean time he will reflect upon his misconduct from the other side of the bars of Jefferson’s tomb of justice.”
The Transcript speculated that he was probably part of a gang that had recently burgled the Golden Mill and a nearby hardware store.
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!
