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For more information on any of these events, see the Goldentoday Calendar.

Museum Exhibits:
American Mountaineering Museum
Gregory William Frux: Mount Washington Observatory
Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave
The Americans, Buffalo Bill’s Death
Colorado Railroad Museum
Winter Wonderlands: Scenes from Howard Fogg’s Holiday Cards (opens 11/2)
Polar Express Rides (very few tickets left)
Foothills Art Center
Holiday Art Market (opens 11/18)
Golden History Museum
Discovery Awaits, Craft Beer and Pizza, Malted Milk
Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum
In the British Fashion: English Paper Pieced Quilts &
English Paper Pieced Quilts from the RMQM Collection
Mines Museum

1
35th Annual Holiday Craft Fair at the Methodist Church
Concert in the Mines Library – Gabe Walton and Lesli Wood
Friday Tour at the Railroad Museum – Highlights
Healthy Skin Club at Earth Sweet Botanicals
Fall Gear Sale at the Mountaineering Center
Murder, Mayhem and Madness Tour
Colorado Rails and Cocktails at the Railroad Museum: Golden’s 1st Railroads
2
35th Annual Holiday Craft Fair at the Methodist Church
Holiday Craft and Bake Sale at Golden Terrace Village
Demon Dash 5K Run/Walk
Painting Notecards with Janet Nunn
Haunted Physics Lab at the School of Mines
Land Navigation – Lookout Mtn Nature Center
Coffee with Councilors
Night at the Museum: Dinosaur Ridge
3
Daylight Saving Time Ends
Coffee with a Ranger at the Lookout Mtn Nature Center
1st Annual Squash Cook-Off
Swing Night Supper Club at the Buffalo Rose
4
Everything Dinosaur Talk: Iguanodonts
Live Elections Tour
Diwali Celebration
DeLong Park Planning Meeting
5
ELECTION DAY
Train Talks – Collections & Archives at the Colorado RR Museum
Hexie Ladies at the Quilt Museum
South Golden Merchants’ Meetings
Cooking Class – Soup is On! at Earth Sweet Botanicals
6
Community Blood Drive
TriceraTOTs at Dinosaur Ridge
Hennebach Lecture: Virus and Vector: Yellow Fever and Atlantic World Environmental History
Family Engagement Night at Golden High School
More than a Headstone: Lives and Legacies of Veterans at Golden History Museum
Trout Unlimited
7
Whiskey & Whiskers benefit for Foothills Animal Shelter
Canine Conversations: Understanding “Alpha Dog” at the Library
Into the Woods at Golden High School
8
Into the Woods at Golden High School
Concert in the Mines Library
Friday Tour at the Railroad Museum – Railroad Kitchens
Ski Movie Premiere – Friends of Berthoud Pass Fundraiser
CMC Film Series: Adaptive and Q&A with Jim Ewing
9
Into the Woods at Golden High School
Turkey Bowl Co-ed Softball Tournament
Mines Little Theater Arts Showcase
West Side Live! Presents After Midnight Swing Band
10
Golden Library Textile Society
11
Fall Yard Waste Pick-up
Veterans Day Breakfast at Golden High School
Everything Dinosaur Talk: Hadrosaurs
Golden Safety Academy – Youth Education & Safety in Schools
12
Full Moon
Fall Yard Waste Pick-up
Town and Gown Book Club: The Happiness Advantage (must register by November 1st)
VIBE@Five
Golden High School PTA
Golden Beer Talks – Australopithecines to the Anthropocene: A Geologist’s View of Where We Came from and Where We Are Going
French Conversation
13
Fall Yard Waste Pick-up
Golden High School Information Night and Open House
Extreme Science Challenge: Forensic Mystery at the Library
Mines Entrepreneurship & Innovation Social
Author Talk: The Winter Army at the Mountaineering Center
Puerto Rico – Active Minds at the Libraray
14
Fall Yard Waste Pick-up
Lunch & Learn: Demystifying CBD with Ambary Gardens
Google Docs at Golden Library
Drop in Tech Help at the Library
Shelton Elementary School Kindergarten Open House
Cooking Class – Classics go Vegetarian at Earth Sweet Botanicals
Big Ring Cycles Guys’ Night
Dinosaur Ridge After Dark: Bones & Brushes Painting Dinosaurs
15
Fall Yard Waste Pick-up
Friday Tour at the Railroad Museum – William Henry Jackson
Rocky Mtn Quilt Study Group
16
Drop In Tech Help at the Library
Golden Past-port Series at the Golden History Museum: Funiculars
Microsoft PowerPoint Basics at the Library
International Day at CSM
17
DJ Tribute Brunch at the Rose – 90s Hip Hop
Sunday at the Quilt Museum: Lorie Stubbs – The Magic of Mosaics
Member Preview – Holiday Art Market
Email: Beyond the Basics at the Library
Drop in Tech Help at the Library
18
Holiday Art Market Opens at Foothills Art Center
NREL Walking Campus Tour
Everything Dinosaur Talk: Ceratopsians
19
Storytime and Craft at the Railroad Museum
Golden Library Book Group: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can Stop Talking
GYP Book Club: The Go Giver
20
Storytime at Golden History Museum
Young Adult Lit Lovers (Y’ALL) at the Library
21
Art on Tap – Ugly Sweater Decoration
A Ragged Rabble of Opportunists – Dennis Potter lecture at the Golden History Museum
Science Sit-Down at the Library
22
Concert in the Mines Library
Art Book Club at Foothills Art Center – Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History in That Order
Friday Tour at the Railroad Museum – Locomotives
23
Success with Pastels at Foothills Art Center
Critique Class with Lea McComas at the Quilt Museum
Teen After Hours: Family Feud Night at the Library
24
3D Printed Cookie Cutters at the Golden Library
25
Skill Builders Meeting at the Library
Everything Dinosaur Talk: Pachycephalosaurs at Dinosaur Ridge
26
Triad – Senior Safety
Lego Play & Build at the Library
Front Porch Golden Book Club
27
Mines Entrepreneurship & Innovations Social
Everything Dinosaur Talk: Archosaurs
Ukulele Wednesdays
Nature Writing Book Club at the Mountaineering Center
28
Thanksgiving
Great Turkey Chase Fun Run
Thanksgiving Yoga at PranaTonic
Dirty Dogs Thanksgiving
29
A Christmas Carol Opens at Miners Alley Playhouse
Friday Tour at the Railroad Museum – Cabooses
30
The Story of the Nutcracker Opens at Miners Alley Children’s Theater
Be a Tool 5K Run
Shop the Fringes
Small Business Saturday

Highlights