What’s Happening in Golden Today?
Miracle Shop @ Calvary Episcopal Church
7:30AM Golden Young Professionals Monthly Membership Meeting @ Golden Visitors Center
9-9:55AM Silver Sneakers Classic (Virtual)
9:15-9:45AM Baby Time @ Golden Library
10-10:30AM Call In: Mid-Morning Meditation (Virtual)
10:15-10:45AM Toddler Time @ Golden Library
2-9PM Raise a Pint, Lend a Hand to the Golden Fire Department @ Holidaily Brewing
3:30PM Wild West Short Tour
6PM Run Club @ Runners Roost
6:30-8PM Winter Sing-Along @ Bell Middle School
7PM Parks, Recreation and Museums Advisory Board Meeting @ City Hall
PRAM will discuss their accomplishments for 2022 and their goals for 2023.
7:30PM A Christmas Story @ Miners Alley Playhouse
Holiday Food Drive @ Mountain Toad Brewery (map) and the Golden Visitor Center (map)
Mountain Toad Brewery (map) and the Golden Visitor Center (map) are hosting a holiday food drive for the Christian Action Guild Food Pantry during the month of December. Food can be dropped off at either location in the donation boxes.
Holiday Canned Food Drive for BGOLDN @ On Tap Credit Union (map)
All of December, On Tap Credit Union is partnering with BGOLDN for a canned food drive. Bring in your cans, and you will be entered to win a gift card to one of our local brewery partners! We ask that before you bring in the items to please make sure they are not expired or damaged as these items cannot be used. Cheers to making a difference in our community.
Live Music
5-8PM Josh Blackburn @ Golden Mill
5-8PM Peter Herod @ Goosetown Station
5-7PM James Hurtado @ Over Yonder
6-9PM Bunny Blake @ Buffalo Rose
6PM Blue River Grass @ New Terrain Brewing
8PM Karaoke @ Rock Rest Lodge
Golden History Moment
84 Years Ago
The December 15, 1938 Colorado Transcript featured this article: Bomb Shape Package Creates Big Stir at The Transcript Office.
Someone had used a Quaker Oats package to mail an object to the Transcript. To add to the excitement, the outside of the package said “Don’t fear, this isn’t a BOMB!” This, of course, made the staff think that it might be a bomb.
The staff considered the package, wondering what they had written to make someone mad enough to send them a bomb. They wondered if they should ask the postmaster, Monty Pike, to open the package, but realized that he had four boys who needed him. The Sheriff seemed like a better prospect (“he’s only a Republican, anyway”). (Have I mentioned that the Transcript was traditionally a Democratic newspaper?)
Then the publisher’s nephew, Neil West Kimball, walked in. The staff realized that Neil came from stern stock: his grandfather, General George West, served valiantly in the Civil War; his uncle, Harley West, served in the Spanish-American War, and Neil himself had served in the World War (the first one).
Neil picked up the package, shook it, removed the string and wrapping paper, and read the inscription on the box. It was a donation to the newly-forming Jefferson County museum. The package contained a carved parrot in a cage. The card accompanying the donation explained that the bird-in-cage was all carved from a single piece of wood, which was once part of the bridge over Kinney Run at 17th Street. Two men had been hanged from that bridge after murdering Reuben Hayward in 1879.
I searched the History Museum’s inventory for the word “parrot,” and sure enough–they still have it!
Many 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!
