WHAT’S HAPPENING IN GOLDEN TODAY?
7:45AM CMC New and Prospectiive Member Hike @ Apex Trailhead
8AM-3PM 3rd Annual Dino Ridge High School Science Quiz Bowl @ Colorado School of Mines
8AM Saturday Morning Run and Social Walk @ Golden History Park
9AM-5PM Fall Whale of a Used Book Sale ($5 admission) @ Jefferson County Fairground
1/2 off all items * for Friends of JCPL members, Jeffco Employees and Teachers | ID Required
All Day Ticket 9AM – 5PM | $5
9AM-4PM Tack Sale @ The Horse Protection League (map)
9AM-5PM Harvest Haunt Express @ Colorado Railroad Museum
It’s full steam ahead for tricks, treats and trains! The Colorado Railroad Museum’s annual Halloween-themed steam-up event is back! Grounds are open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., with activities taking place between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m., including train rides. Guests are encouraged to come in costume for Trick-or-Treating! Today’s Harvest Haunt Train Rides are SOLD OUT! CLICK HERE to purchase General Admission without a ride. CLICK HERE to purchase Train Rides & Admission for Saturday October 28, 2023.
9AM-4PM Holiday Craft Fair @ Golden Gate Grange
9:30AM-12PM Walk with a Geologist @ Triceratops Trail
10AM-3PM Brunch at the Rose @ Buffalo Rose
10:15AM Family Time @ Golden Library
10:30AM-3PM Sewing Bee @ First Presbyterian Church of Golden
11AM-3PM Locals Pop Up Market @ Morris & Mae
12-1PM Paleo Pancakes @ Natural Grocers
12-9PM The Kokua Project – Beer Release & Fundraiser @ Barrels & Bottles Camp George West (map)
Kōkua, which means “Extending Help to Others”, will be one beer, brewed by many, to support the people of Maui impacted by the Maui wildfires. Over 700 breweries world-wide have pledged to brew the same beer to support the people affected by the fires in Maui. Session IPA – One Beer, Brewed By Many. More information
1-4PM Nature Journal Club: Autumn Journaling @ Lookout Mountain Preserve and nature Center
2-6PM Spooktacular @ Mines Museum
6PM, 6:30PM, 6:45PM, 7:15PM, 7:30PM The Talking Dead Immersive Haunted Scavenger Hunt
7:30PM The Cherry Orchard @ Miners Alley Playhouse
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LIVE MUSIC
11AM-2PM Chris Child @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
4-8PM 2nd Time Around @ Wrigley’s
5-8PM Live Music @ Eddy Taproom
5PM Will Wilding @ Golden Hotel
5:30-8:30PM Salty Strings @ Goosetown Station
6PM Derek Hall @ Morris & Mae
6PM Electric Red @ Over Yonder
7-10PM Southside Mike @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
7PM El Loco Fandango / Dreamboat Annie / Journey to the Heart @ Buffalo Rose (main venue)
9PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern
GOLDEN HISTORY MOMENT
One of my favorite research tools is the 1878 Willits Map of Golden. It provides incredible detail about exactly what was here in that year. Check out this piece of downtown:
I knew that Dan Abbott (author of Colorado Central Railroad) had redrawn it from the original, but I had not known what inspired him to do that–so I asked! Here’s Dan’s story:
Back in the mid-1980s, both Francis Rizzari and Dick Ronzio were at the age of not driving at night anymore, so they appointed me to chauffeur them to the monthly Denver Westerners meeting.
In the course of these monthly outings Dick mentioned that he had an old Golden map he would like to have redrawn, and as he knew that I had done some of this kind of work previously, he commissioned me to redraw this particular historic item relating to Golden’s history.
I went to his house one day soon after this, and took charge of this original map to be redrawn. It was an original linen map in colored ink, which had been glued to a 24” x 36” piece of plywood with a Plexiglas sheet covering the front. The original linen had been folded in half and was a bear to decipher any detail around this fold.
It took approximately 120 hours to redraw this at its original size. When completed around the first of April in 1987, Dick took my original drawing and had it reduced to 18” x 22” and gave me a copy, which I in turn had about 100 copies made and sold these for a number of years thereafter.
Dan Abbott
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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