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10AM-3PM Brunch at the Rose @ Buffalo Rose
12-2PM Full Walking Tour @ Dinosaur Ridge
1-3:30PM Colorado Cowboy Gathering | A Festival of Western Music, Poetry, and Story-telling – Matinee Performances @ Buffalo Rose
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LIVE MUSIC
12-3PM Derek Hall @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
2-5PM Howard Dlugasch@ Golden Mill
3PM Scotty Brown @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
3-6PM Big Hooray Bluegrass @ Over Yonder
8PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern
GOLDEN HISTORY MOMENT
The January 14, 1937 Colorado Transcript announced that our new elementary school would be dedicated on Sunday, January 17th. Knowing that everyone in the community would want to see the new building, Superintendent Roger Q. Mitchell arranged for public tours.
In 1956, the school was renamed in honor of Supt. Mitchell. At that time, Fleet Parsons, editor of the Colorado Transcript, remembered Mitchell’s efforts to get the school built:
It was the most disreputable block and a half in Golden. The rat infested wreckage of the old Bella Vista Hotel was in one corner. On Ford St. there were some 4 or 5 unoccupied, abandoned dilapidated, run-down two-story store buildings. This Golden Shopping Center of that early date had been moved up onto Washington Ave., where it is now thriving. A few old, illy-kept homes were located on Eleventh Street. It was a whale of a job that Supt. Mitchell had determined to accomplish, and I told him so.
When the school was moved to the north end of town in 1997, the new building kept the name, Mitchell Elementary.
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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