Virtual Events
6-6:55AM Cycling
9-9:55AM Silver Sneakers Classic
10:15-10:45AM Virtual: Baby and Toddler Time
11-11:55AM HIIT & Sculpt
12-12:55PM All Levels Yoga Virtual
6-8PM Zoom into Watercolor with Janet Nunn
6:30PM City Council Special Meeting
The City Manager has announced his intention to resign, moving to a job at the School of Mines. Tonight, City Council will review several proposals from search firms, one of which will help find his replacement.
GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT: Members of the public wishing to provide public comment on this matter shall submit comments via email to PublicComment@cityofgolden.net prior to 3:00 pm on February 15, 2022, or may participate with live virtual public comment during the meeting by pre-registering for the meeting at REGISTER HERE . *Please note, public comment emails are compiled and posted on the website shortly after 5pm on the day of the meeting.
Real World Events
8-9AM What’s Brewing Golden @ Golden Hotel
9-10:00AM Women’s Exercise and Bible Study @ First United Methodist Church
9:15-9:45AM Baby Time @ Golden Library
10:15-10:45AM Preschool Time @ Golden Library
11AM-12:30PM Golden Community Table @ First United Methodist Church
1-3PM Crazy Quilt Sisters @ Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum
6-8PM Toad Trivia Tuesdays @ Mountain Toad Brewing
6:30-8:30PM Team Trivia Tuesdays @ Buffalo Rose
6:30-8PM Trivia Tuesday @ The Golden Mill
7-9PM Team Trivia Night @ Tributary Food Hall
7PM Trivia Night @ the Ace
Golden History Moment
Heart and Soul of Golden
Eugenia Mitchell moved to Golden in 1952. A few years later, her husband died of a snake bite. After that, she supported herself and her four children with a variety of jobs.
As a widow, Mitchell worked as a cleaning woman and caretaker. In her spare time, she quilted. Along with counterpanes, she created patchwork skirts, vests and shoes that never failed to fascinate onlookers. Her materials came almost exclusively from worn-out clothing and fabric discards, and what she found at thrift shops.
“She lived by her wits, knowing how to find bargains and how to make do,” said longtime friend Pat Moore.
Denver Post – December 22, 2006 – “Quilts told story of Eugenia Mitchell’s life“
She owned several acres of land at the mouth of Clear Creek Canyon, and took in borders. After a time, she began acquiring mobile homes and renting them. This began a long-running legal dispute with the county, which insisted that her land was not zoned as a mobile home park.
Folk art began attracting attention in the 1960s, and in 1970 the then-fledgling Foothills Art Center presented a show of Mitchell’s quilts. The exhibit attracted a great deal of attention. Mrs. Mitchell began teaching quilting classes and entering regional art shows. In time she became a noted lecturer about the history and craft of quilting. She traveled with the Colorado Chatauqua society and had a show at the Denver Art Museum. She accumulated an impressive collection of antique quilts, in addition to the ones she made herself.
In the 1970s and ’80s, she was running a quilting store in Golden. At this time, she began sharing her dream of founding a quilt museum. In 1981, a group of quilt enthusiasts set up as a non-profit organization and began soliciting funds to establish a museum. The Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum opened in 1990, with 101 of Eugenia Mitchell’s quilts forming the nucleus of their collection.
Mrs. Mitchell died in 2006 at the age of 103. The museum that she founded is thriving, presenting four exhibits per year as well as lecturers, study groups, and summer camps. Their Sandra Dallas library contains more than 7,500 volumes on quilting.
Their current show is the biennial “Quilts Made by Men.”
The Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum
200 Violet Street, Suite 140
map
303-277-0377
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!
