Real World Events
10AM-3PM Brunch at the Buffalo Rose
The Rose offers brunch every Saturday and Sunday. Come enjoy our delicious brunch menu, along with signature cocktails. Music from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Reservations
12-10PM Fourth of July Festival in Lions Park (map)
The Golden Lions Club is organizing and will be hosting the 4th of July community celebration in Lions Park again this year. This is one of the major ways for the Lions to give back to the Golden community and our country. Activities include music provided by two bands starting at 3:00 p.m. and a large fireworks display in the evening. The celebration is designed to be a day for families, friends and neighbors to get together at the beautiful park on 10th Street to picnic or purchase food and drink from American Legion Golden Post 21, two specialty food trucks, cold Coors and Golden City Brewery beer, Bonacquisti Wines (Denver’s Urban Winery) and enjoy all the festivities.
Bands:
3-6PM Ryan Chrys & the Rough Cuts (Modern Outlaw Country)
6:30 – 9:30PM Something Underground (Rock)
The City of Golden will put on a fireworks display starting approximately 9:35 p.m., weather permitting. The fireworks can be best viewed from along the creek and the Lions Park Ballfields. Follow the City on Facebook or Twitter @CityofGolden to be the first in the know if a delay or cancellation is required due to wind or other unfavorable conditions. If the fireworks show does have to be canceled, it will be rescheduled at a later time. More information Sponsored by the City of Golden and the Golden Lions Club.
LIVE MUSIC:
11AM William Topley @ Buffalo Rose (main venue)
11AM JayMartin @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage – outdoor patio)
2PM Shawn Eckels @ Golden Mill
3PM Pete Weber Trio @ Over Yonder
3PM Funk It Up @ Wrigley’s
4PM Peter Burkholder @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage – outdoor patio)
4PM Charlie White Duo @ Golden City Brewery
8PM Karaoke Contest @ Ace Hi Tavern
Golden History Moment
154 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 many thanks to the Golden Transcript for documenting our history since 1866!
