What’s Happening in Golden Today?
6-6:55AM Cardio Lift Interval (Virtual)
8:30-9:30AM Power Training (Virtual)
9AM Golden Walks – Wednesday Morning Celebrating Life @ Golden Library
10AM Wild West Short Tour (1 hour)
10AM and 1PM Wild West Walking Tour (2 hours)
10-10:55AM All Levels Yoga (Virtual)
10:15-10:45AM Toddler Time @ Golden Library
2-3:30PM Hydroponic Gardening: Get Growing! @ Golden Library
Grow your own fresh fruit, veggies and flowers at any time of year! Learn the ins-and-outs of this alternative growing method by helping to maintain the Library’s permanent hydroponic garden. Keep the gardening fun going by creating a system of your own to take home.
3-5PM Hard Times Writing Workshop (Virtual)
4PM Titanic: Tragedy and Trial @ Golden High School
5-6PM Arte de mi Corazón (Virtual)
6-7:30PM Drinking In – and Drinking Your Way Through – Colorado’s History and Beauty @ Golden History Museum
Author and Jefferson County resident Ed Sealover has spent years traveling the state, looking for its backroads and hidden gems. His travels led to his book, Colorado Excursions with History, Hikes and Hops, a 30-day guide to seeing the best of the state by stopping each day at one historical site, one natural site and one drinking site. Sealover will discuss his finds and his adventures, and he will discuss why such travel is even more needed today than it was when he wrote the book in a pre-pandemic world. Non-member – $10 plus processing fee / Member – Free Tickets
6:30PM Planning Commission Study Session @ City Hall
Planning Commission will consider a Site Development Plan for 600 Arapahoe Street (map). The homeowners hope to subdivide their property and build a duplex on the southern half of their yard. The plan would require a curb cut for a driveway off Arapahoe Street, which qualifies as a “Major Adjustment” to code standards. The site, which is next to Highway 58, would be subject to higher-than-allowable noise levels, so building there would require special permission from City Council.
The Commission will discuss the City’s Annexation Plan. This is an annual exercise required by the state, in which the City reviews surrounding areas and evaluates the pros, cons, complications, etc., of annexing property in that area. The City is not actively pursuing any annexations, but would consider one if approached by a property owner. Since annexation means the City becomes responsible for providing infrastructure (water, sewer, roads, etc.), we would need a good reason to agree to it. “Good reasons” can include
- Control and manage the location and character of future growth and development
- To make the City boundaries more cohesive, organized and logical
- To achieve economic development goals
- To protect and control the environment of the City and its perimeter.
They will discuss our relatively-new form-based zoning code to evaluate how it’s working and discuss any changes needed to make it meet our goals more effectively. As the Commission has reviewed cases over the past several months, they have expressed some frustration that they’re not seeing the smaller scale projects they had hoped for. People still tend to maximize the amount of square footage allowed on a lot.
They will review their Affordable Housing Policy to see whether they want to make any updates. Since they last reviewed the policy, City Council has approved a new Housing Needs and Strategies Assessment, which projects that Golden will need 3,100 new home in the next ten years
They will end the meeting with a study session, discussing their goals for next year.
Live Music
5-9PM Open Mic @ Cannonball Creek
5-8PM Alibi Trio @ Golden Mill
6:30PM Open Jam/Mic at Over Yonder Brewing
Golden History Moment
40 Years Ago
The November 16, 1982 Golden Transcript announced the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum‘s first public show. The Denver Center for the Performing Arts was showing a play called “The Quilters,” and they had invited the nascent Quilt Museum to exhibit some of their collection.
The Museum had existed for less than a year at that time, and they were busy fund-raising and looking for a home. The Astor House was providing temporary shelter:
There is a very small office within the Astor House in Golden, the oldest remaining hotel west of St. Louis, but it is not your average office.
Within it stand two old card tables cluttered neatly with quilt patterns, pieces and partially finished quilts. Two stuffed chairs also are adorned with handmade quilts. In one corner stands a bookshelf filled with pattern books. By the window there is a rocking chair with a quilted seat pad. Even more quilts adorn the walls,
This is the office of Eugenia Mitchell, but more importantly the office of the Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum and Memorabilia.
Golden Transcript – June 1, 1982
The Museum spent most of the 1980s in fund-raising/home-looking mode, doing occasional exhibits at other museums, such as Foothills Art Center. In 1990, they found their first home at 1111 Washington Avenue. Nineteen years later, they moved to a larger space in the next block of Washington Avenue. Finally, they bought their own building at 200 Violet Street in Golden (map).
The original collection of 101 quilts donated by Eugenia Mitchell has grown to more than 850 quilts in the permanent collection. They also have a remarkable library, consisting of some 7,500 books. The museum offers several exhibits each year, displaying world-class quilt collections on loan from their owners. Their popular lecture series, “Sunday Afternoon at the Museum,” always draws a crowd, and the museum itself is a destination for quilters and quilt-lovers from all over the world.
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!
