Virtual Events
6-6:55AM Virtual HIIT
8:30-9:30AM Virtual Power Training
8:30-9:25AM Strength and Cardio
11AM-12PM All Levels Yoga Virtual
Real World Events
9:45AM Preschool Nature Nuts @ Lookout Mountain Nature Center
1-2PM The Friday Tour @ Colorado Railroad Museum
11AM-12PM All Levels Yoga Virtual
3PM Vaccine, License & Microchip Clinic @ Foothills Animal Shelter
7:30PM Before You Go @ Miners Alley Playhouse (through September 20)
Live Music
4PM Ross Henderson @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage – outdoor patio)
4PM Seeing Stars Band @ Over Yonder
5PM Cool Shade @ Goosetown Station
6PM Jewel and the Rough @ Wrigley’s
9PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern
Golden History Moment
Dutch Elm disease rolled across the country during the 1960s, and by the 1970’s, it was hitting Golden hard. A January 2, 1970 Golden Transcript article estimated that elms constituted 75 percent of the shade trees in the Denver metro area. When the disease reached Golden, yards all over town lost their shade trees, and the School of Mines had to remove more than 40 large trees from the campus.
The disease was carried by elm beetles, and it was important to destroy the felled trees as soon as possible, so that the insects didn’t continue to live and breed in the lumber.
51 Years Ago
The September 10, 1970 Golden Transcript reported that the State Health Department would be setting a date to burn diseased elm trees at both the Rooney Road dump and the Leyden sanitary landfill.
This story is historically interesting for two reasons: first, because many people have no memory of the towering trees that used to arch over Golden’s streets, and second, because many people won’t remember when trash (including trees) was burned. The Clean Air Act was signed into law on December 31, 1970.
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!
