My apologies for yesterday’s jumbled email! You received my blank template, followed by the draft of today’s email, followed by the Sunday email. At least you know this isn’t generated by AI–I assume a computer wouldn’t exhibit such gaffes. I’m repeating Rich Lucken’s photo of flowers by the Golden City Brewery, because I thought it was exceptionally pretty and I wanted to make sure you saw it.
WHAT’S HAPPENING IN GOLDEN TODAY?
5:38AM Full Moon
The moon will set at 5:20AM, reappearing tonight at 9:27PM. It will set tomorrow morning at 6:35AM.
8AM Clear Creek Corridor Cleanup @ Golden History Museum
8:30-9:30AM Power Training (Virtual)
9:15-9:45AM Let’s Dance @ Golden Library
10-10:55AM All Levels Yoga (Virtual)
12-12:30PM Mondays with Mayor Weinberg (Virtual)
5-8PM Monday Market @ Cannonball Creek Brewing
SEE THE COMPLETE CALENDAR OF EVENTS.
TRIVIA
7-8PM Colorado Trivia League @ Morris & Mae
4TH OF JULY PREVIEW
11AM-9:30PM 4th of July Celebration @ Lions Park
There will be live bands throughout the day, wine & beer available for purchase, and five food trucks on hand. The Lions Club will be announcing raffle winners throughout the day. Fireworks will happen at dusk!
The park will be crowded, so arrive early to stake out your place. Parking will be difficult. 10th Street will be paid parking all day, so if you find a spot on 10th Street, make sure you register your car at the kiosk or on the app–otherwise, you may get a staggeringly expensive ticket!
Most of the museums will be open tomorrow:
Golden History Museum (10AM-4:30PM)
Colorado Railroad Museum (9AM-5PM)
Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum (10AM-4PM)
Buffalo Bill Museum & Gravesite (10AM-5PM)
Dinosaur Ridge (9AM-5PM)
GOLDEN HISTORY MOMENT
156 Years Ago
The July 3, 1867 Colorado Transcript found Editor George West in a reflective mood. He was sorry that there would be no 4th of July celebration. He found Americans to be a rather dour lot, and thought we should loosen up.
On our few festive occasions we ought to be free and easy; throw off our Yankee matter-of-fact, straight-laced demeanor, and have a good time; stop counting dollars and cents, shut up our journals and ledgers, and banish from our minds all calculations on the speculations or trades of the day following.
West also acknowledged that there were lingering hard feelings from the Civil War (only two years past).
We regret too, that there is not that degree of harmony throughout our family of States that there ought to be but hope that before another anniversary, we shall be so ‘reconstructed,’ North and South, that we can unite as one people, united in heart and sentiment, as we are technically, in a perpetual Union.
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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