ODYSSEE-Days @ Colorado School of Mines
9AM Cardboard Boat Races on Clear Creek
12-3PM Carnival on campus
Tonight’s E-Days fireworks have been canceled. The extremely dry conditions and high winds leaves us too vulnerable to fire.
Real World Events
8AM New and Prospective Member Hike @ Apex Trail
10AM-4PM Alternative Printmaking Workshop @ Foothills Art Center
Printing making is transferring an image from a matrix onto another surface. In this class we will explore that transfer process in a very loose and experimental way, using simple tools and techniques that yield surprising results. Think monotypes, collagraphs, gelatin prints, making and using stencils, making and using stamps, found objects, positive and negative shapes.
Participants will build leave with an arsenal of shapes and tools to cross-pollinate the various techniques. The stamp and stencil shapes become part of your visual vocabulary. We will create a stack o’ prints on a variety of papers. Come and be part of this creative experimentation.
All levels welcome (18+), all materials provided with a $25 fee to the instructor, bring a sack lunch for Saturday, take home your prints on Sunday. Non-members $230 / Members $200 Register Become a member
10AM-5PM Spring Gear Sale and Swap @ Golden River Sports
10AM-3PM Brunch at the Rose @ Buffalo Rose
10AM-3PM Saturday Train Rides @ Colorado Railroad Museum
10AM-5PM Member Appreciation Day @ Foothills Art Center
Whether you’re an avid class participant, art lover, artist, youth summer class parent, or a long-time supporter, we are incredibly grateful that you’re a member! Come and mingle with the staff, enjoy some delicious food and drinks, and get your hands dirty with an artful activity.
We will have succulents and paint your own pot activity because creativity grows at Foothills Art Center because of members like YOU. Not a Member but want to join in on the fun? Memberships start at just $30 annually! Become a member
10:15AM Family Time @ Golden Library
11:30AM-1PM Poetry Alive @ Golden Library
12-1PM Ladybug Love – Green Gardening Tips for Beneficial Bugs @ Natural Grocers
12-2PM Full Walking Tour @ Dinosaur Ridge
1PM The Princess and the Pea @ Miners Alley Playhouse – OPENING DAY!
6-10PM Rock Out for the Ridge @ Fossil Trace Golf Club
7:30PM Blue Ridge @ Miners Alley Playhouse
Live Music
11AM-2PM Chris Child @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
1PM Brian Hornbuckle Band @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
5PM Rick Lewis Project @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
5-8PM Cipriano @ Goosetown Station
7-10PM Conal Rosanbalm @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
7PM Message in a Bottle Tribute to Police @ Buffalo Rose (main venue)
9PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern
Golden History Moment
58 Years Ago
The April 23, 1964 Colorado Transcript described a mild protest staged by Colorado School of Mines students.
Spring fever traditionally has had an upsetting influence on collegians. Wild beach parties, raids on girls’ quarters, Volkswagen and phone booth stuffing, and even an occasional swallowed goldfish are part of the campus spring fever tradition. Unfortunately the Colorado School of Mines students have few of these outlets. No girls’ dorms (yet), no beaches, few gold fish and stuffing phone booths and compacts has gotten old.
Colorado Transcript – April 23, 1964
The article explained that the students—unhappy with the state of Golden’s streets—had posted a banner under the Welcome arch saying “Home of the Nation’s Worst Roads.” The Transcript interviewed one of the students, who claimed that Golden’s streets were full of chuckholes [potholes], some of them nine inches deep. He said that his car was a junker, but many of the students had good cars, including sports cars, and some had suffered wheel damage from Golden potholes.
City officials were offended, and quickly took down the banner. They were proud of our facilities, which included a new municipal building and pool. They pointed out that “…there has been more street construction accomplished by the city during the past six years than at any time in the city’s 100-plus years…. Only about 35 blocks in the city remain to be paved.”
Post Script: In 1991, Golden voters approved an extra 1% sales tax to be used for infrastructure maintenance. Our streets, gutters, sidewalks, water, and wastewater systems have improved every year since then, and now it’s rare to find a pothole in Golden.
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!
