Virtual Events
8-8:55AM Tai Chi
8:30-9:30AM Virtual Power Training
10-10:55AM All Levels Yoga
11-11:55AM Find Your Balance
3-5PM Hard Times Writing Workshop
3-4:15PM Virtual: Medicare Basics
Real World Events
9AM Golden Walks – Wednesday Morning Celebrating Life @ Golden Library
10AM, 1PM, 4PM, and 6PM Wild West Short Tour
10:15-10:45AM Outdoor Story Time @ Golden History Park
10:30AM-12PM Hands-on Activities @ Golden History Museum & Park
6PM Pong Night @ Coda Brewing
7PM Trivia Night @ Trailhead Taphouse
Live Music
5-9PM Open Mic @ Cannonball Creek
6-9PM Evan Beitsch @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
6:30PM Open Jam/Mic at Over Yonder Brewing
Thomas the Tank Engine
It’s time to purchase tickets for this year’s visit of Thomas the Tank Engine. The most desirable times sell out quickly, so don’t delay if you plan to go!
(Golden, Colo.) — Peep! Peep! Thomas the Tank Engine is rolling into town for three weekends of BIG dreams and even BIGGER smiles. Join us at Day Out With Thomas
, where families can join the outdoor fun and Dream Big when the #1 Engine pulls into the Colorado Railroad Museum on the weekends of September 10-11, 17-18, and 24-25, 2022! Purchase tickets here.
Golden History Moment
44 Years Ago
The August 10, 1978 Golden Transcript included an article titled “Retired con artist to conduct business fraud seminar here.”
Frank W. Abagnale, Jr. estimated by the FBI to have passed $2.5 million in bad checks, will be conducted a business fraud seminar at Metals Hall on the Colorado School of Mines campus Aug. 15, Colorado Retail Council (CRC) executive director Lee Bennet has announced.
The article called Abagnale “the world’s greatest retired con-man.”
Thirty years old, Abagnale began his career after dropping out of the tenth grade. With an IQ of 136, and a zest of making people believe he was whatever he pretended to be, he successfully passed himself off as a pilot for a major U.S. airline; worked as a lawyer on a state attorney general’s staff and successfully prosecuted 33 civil suits; was a consulting resident pediatrician in a Georgia hospital; and impersonated an FBI agent.
This all sounded very familiar, and I realized that Abagnale’s story was the basis of a movie, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as the con-man and Tom Hanks as the FBI agent who tracked him down: Catch Me If You Can.
It was a good movie! It’s available from the library and it’s currently on Netflix.
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!
