WHAT’S HAPPENING IN GOLDEN TODAY?
8AM-5PM Early Bird Entry to the Fall Whale of a Used Book Sale ($10 admission) @ Jefferson County Fairground
9AM-5PM Fall Whale of a Used Book Sale ($5 admission) @ Jefferson County Fairground
9AM-4PM Tack Sale @ The Horse Protection League (map)
9:15-9:45AM Toddler Time @ Golden Library
10AM-12PM Rocky Mountain Quilt Study Group @ Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum
10AM Wild West Walking Tour
10:15-10:45AM Toddler Time @ Golden Library
10:30AM and 1:30PM The Friday Tour @ Colorado Railroad Museum
11:30AM-1PM Social Media Idea Lab @ Golden Library
12-12:55PM All Levels Yoga (Virtual)
1-1:45PM Silver Sneakers Yoga (Virtual)
3PM Vaccine, License & Microchip Clinic @ Foothills Animal Shelter
6-8PM Teen After Hours: Scary Movie Night – Umma @ Golden Library
6-8PM Opening Reception @ Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum
Join us Friday, October 20, 2023 from 6:00 – 8:00 pm for RMQM’s Exhibit Opening Reception! View our latest show stopper quilts while you enjoy refreshments, and visit with friends, family and our attending exhibitors! This is a free event.
6:30PM Golden “Murder, Mayhem, and Madness” @ Golden Visitors Center
7PM Golden Ghosts & Ghouls – Kids Ghost Tour
7:30PM The Cherry Orchard @ Miners Alley Playhouse
9PM Golden “Murder, Mayhem, and Madness” @ Golden Visitors Center
SEE THE COMPLETE CALENDAR OF EVENTS.
GOLDEN HALLOWEEN
There are several Halloween events coming up. If you’re a fan of the season, visit our Halloween calendar: www.goldenhalloween.com.
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LIVE MUSIC
5-8PM Live Music @ Eddy Taproom
5:30-8:30PM Electric Red @ Goosetown Station
5:30-7:30PM Parmalee Gulch Ramblers @ Morris & Mae
6PM Hillbilly Demons @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
6-10PM The Revenants @ Wrigley’s
7-10PM Bunny Blake @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
9PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern
GOLDEN HISTORY MOMENT
This photo was taken in the Golden Cemetery on May 19, 1935. The newly-completed stone warming house appears in the background. On a recent visit to the cemetery, I looked for the markers shown in that photo.
I found the markers–and what a difference 88 years makes! The warming house (now the cemetery office) is still there, but it’s hidden behind a big Colorado Spruce.
Until the mid-1930s, the Golden Cemetery lacked an irrigation system–which meant no trees. Despite the on-going Depression, then-Mayor A. E. Jones made cemetery improvements his personal mission. He asked the public for donations of pipe and cobbled together an irrigation system. Then he encouraged people to donate trees from their own yards. More trees were added in the 1950s, when the City transplanted dozens of evergreens from the Beaver Brook property.
Several particularly fine specimens are now labeled, and the cemetery is beginning to serve a dual purpose as an arboretum.
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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