Early Dip
Photo by Joyce Davell
What's happening in Golden today?
Events for Saturday, May. 18th
- All day - The Emperor's New Clothes - MAPAC Children's Theater
- All day - CURRENT EXHIBITS AT THE MUSEUMS
- All day - Golden History Tours
- 7:45AM-12:30PM - Rotary Epic Morning of Service
- 8AM - Saturday Morning Run and Social Walk
- 8AM - Bird Watching Walk in Kinney Run
- 8AM-5PM - Wilderness First Aid
- 8:30AM-1PM - Bike Walk Golden Trail Etiquette Booth
- 9AM-5PM - Colorado Crossings
- 9AM-12PM - Creating a Cozy Campsite
- 9AM-12PM - Blacksmithing
- 9:30AM-12PM - Walk With a Geologist at Triceratops Trail
- 10AM-2PM - Earth Day Celebration
- 10AM-3PM - Brunch at the Rose
- 10AM-3PM - Saturday Train Rides
- 10AM-5PM - Foothills Art Center - Creative Campus Opening and Ribbon Cutting
- 10AM-12PM - Mini-Garage Sale
- 10:15-10:45AM - Family Time
- 10:30AM-3PM - Sewing Bee
- 11AM-10PM - Gluten-Free Foodie Festival!
- 12-12:45PM - Digestive Health 101
- 2:30-4PM - Make Something: Memories Box
- 7PM - Colorado Summit Home Game
- 7:30PM - The Full Monty
For more information, click the item above or visit the Golden Today Calendar
9AM-5PM Colorado Crossings @ the Railroad Museum
One of the Railroad Museum's narrow gauge locomotives
This weekend (intended for narrow gauge and history enthusiasts) celebrates railroading in Colorado. There will be steam train rides, special activities including model and garden railroads in operation, and more!
Each day will kick off with a parade of steam locomotives and Galloping Goose motorcars (9:30am). Train Rides each day will feature a passenger train including historic coaches. Late each afternoon (approx. 3:30pm), a special photographers’ train will operate. Regular admission and train ride pricing applies. Capacity is very limited for this event, so advance purchase of admission and train ride tickets is recommended. More information
Colorado Railroad Museum
17155 W. 44th Avenue (map)
9AM-12PM Blacksmithing @ the History Park
Blacksmith in the Golden History Park - Photo by Lindsay Young
Have you always wanted to learn about blacksmithing but you’ve had trouble finding a good option? Join our volunteer every third Saturday at Golden History Park for a fun morning of observation and learning about blacksmithing. Our recreated blacksmith shop, complete with historic tools and coal-fired forge, will transport you to the 1800s. Bring your technical questions and your camera and we’ll take care of the rest. More information
Sunday Preview: Get a head start on Farmers Market season!
Join us for the inaugural Farmers Marketplace at The Golden Hayride Outpost on Sundays May-October!
WHERE: Golden Hayride Outpost located at 17695 S Golden Road (map)
WHEN: Sundays May 5-October 27 from 9 am to 2 pm
WHAT: Fresh produce, local vendors, food trucks, refreshments, and community fun!
Here is a sample of some featured vendors throughout our marketplace season:
- Heinie's Market
- Mac Nation food truck
- Nancy’s Nibbles
- Kona Ice
- Nate’s Toys
- The Wild Clementine Floral flowers
- Baked goods
- Plant starters and eggs
- Hannah's Homestead Homemade Soaps
- Pete's Kombucha
- Tea’s
- Lovelevel Wooden Jewelry
- Heart Glass Studio
- TaTtered-N-Torn Hats
- and more!
We have indoor and outdoor seating to enjoy your meal and relax with a beverage after browsing the marketplace. We hope to see you there!
10AM-5PM Creative Campus Grand Opening & Ribbon Cutting
Foothills Art Center Creative Campus - photo by Richard Luckin
Join us for the Public Opening of the Creative Campus with the Foothills Art Center and discover the newly renovated space.
The Golden Chamber will hold a Ribbon Cutting ceremony at 10AM.
As a hub for vibrant art classes, studio artists, and diverse educational programs, the Creative Campus invites you to explore its offerings. During the Public Opening, you’ll have the opportunity to mingle with the Creative Campus Studio Artists, purchase art from Open Studio artists, and explore the new ceramics studio.
Foothills Art Center
809 15th Street (map)
9AM Creating a Cozy Campsite
Join expert Aaron “Hutch” Hutchings in building a cozy home away from home while camping. This class will prepare you to stay warm and comfortable while sleeping outdoors or chatting around the campfire. Both historic and modern camp building skills will be taught. While everyone else shivers, you’ll be sleeping your cares away in your perfectly designed campsite. Register
Golden History Museum
923 10th Street (map)
10AM-noon Mini-Garage Sale @ the Quilt Museum
The annual garage sale at the Quilt Museum (held in August)
RMQM has an over abundance of fabric from recent donations and a shortage of storage space - so YOU get the benefit in a Mini-Garage Sale!
Spring Mini Garage Sale
FABRIC AND QUILTS
Members early access at 9am
FABRIC SOLD BY THE POUND
$10 per pound
(approximately 3 yards of fabric to the pound)
Sale will be held rain or shine!
Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum
200 Violet Street, Suite 150 (map)
2:30-4PM Make Something: Memories Box @ Golden Library
Commemorate the memorable moments of May! From Mother's Day to graduations, birthdays, and Memorial Day, this month is filled with cherished memories. Join Rachel Gamblin from History and Home as she guides you through the art of documenting your special moments and crafting a personalized memory box. Using replicas of your documents and photographs, learn how to preserve your memories creatively.
Golden Library
1019 10th Street (map)
10AM-2PM Earth Day Celebration @ DeLong Park
DeLong Park on 23rd Street - Photo by Liz Erickson
The City of Golden and Weedbuster volunteers invite you to DeLong Park to Celebrate Earth Day, learn about the pesticide free park and the native plants that live there.
There will be games for children, exploration learning, giveaways and more. Questions about the event, please email goldenshealth@gmail.com.
DeLong Park
395 23rd Street (map)
Live Music for Saturday, May. 18th
- 8PM: Paradise Theatre @ Buffalo Rose (main venue)
- 5:30-8:30PM: Bunny Blake @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
- More Live Music
1PM Moonspot @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
4PM Chrome Horse - A Bob Dylan Tribute @ Coda Brewing
4-8PM Mountain Magic Band @Wrigley’s
5-9PM Live Music @ Bridgewater Grill
5-8PM Live Music @ Eddy Taproom
6PM Front Range Cowboys @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
6-9PM Coast to Ghost @ Goosetown Station
7PM 5280 Jukebox @ Golden Moon Speakeasy
9PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern
For more information, visit the Golden Today Calendar
Golden History: A Cross on the Mountain (Again)
A Cross Planted on Castle Rock - Photo by Liz Erickson
On Thursday evening, someone planted a cross on Castle Rock. Who did it? We don't know, but they left a mess--bungee cords and wood shavings.
Also--why? Were they proselytizing, memorializing, or just vandalizing? Were they aware that they were echoing a nasty incident from the past? This seemed like the right time to reprint the story of Castle Rock and the Ku Klux Klan.
The KKK was originally formed in the south, right after the Civil War, but was largely rooted out during Reconstruction.
In the mid-19-teens, a large scale revival of the Klan began, inspired by the movie “The Birth of a Nation.” That film showed a re-imagined, shockingly racist version of the south during Reconstruction, and depicted the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan as heroes.
This second generation Klan spread quickly throughout the U.S., including Colorado. Their tenets were pro-white Protestant and anti-anything else. They marketed themselves as a social club but were known for burning crosses and hiding their identities beneath robes and hoods. This second Klan reached its height of popularity in the mid-1920s and crumbled by the early 1930s.
For a time, the Klan chapters throughout the Denver metro area held their gatherings on Castle Rock, above Golden. They drove out to Golden on “the cement road” (Colfax). The automobiles would be stopped by robed and hooded Klansmen on horses and their identities checked before they were allowed to proceed up and across South Table Mountain towards Castle Rock.
During their meetings, they raised crosses and either burned them or wired them for electric light bulbs. According to the Transcript, the crosses were at least 50 feet high and could be seen for miles around. The Transcripts dated 9/27/23, and 10/25/23 describe the meetings.
My late friend, Lorraine Wagenbach, was raised on Wide Acres Road, east of Golden. She was very young at the time, but she remembered seeing the line of cars filled with Klansmen driving out from Denver to hold their meetings on South Table Mountain. She wrote,
I can remember the long lines of cars that traveled the old Golden cement road in front of our house and then up Lava Lane (now Quaker Street) in the weekly Ku Klux Klan parade to Castle Rock. I recall people talking of their burning the cross, which I never really understood but which I greatly feared. We could see the white hooded robes of the members through the open touring cars.
From A Woman’s Life in Golden
Lorraine’s family were Catholic, so they had good reason to be nervous about the Klan.
In 1927, the old dance hall on Castle Rock, which had been used as a meeting place for the KKK, burned down. The Klan was beginning to die out by that time as its highest-ranking officers were indicted for embezzlement. That fire marked the end of the KKK's use of Castle Rock.
So this week, why did someone go to so much trouble to carry the wood up the mountain, assemble it into a cross, and jam it into the rock? No idea, but it's always worth reminding people that Castle Rock is private property and the people who put it there were trespassing and vandalizing.
The Golden Transcript (originally called the Colorado Transcript) has been publishing since 1866. The Golden History Museum has been working on digitizing the historic issues. You’ll find old Transcripts online at coloradohistoricnewspapers.org
Weather
Overnight: Mostly clear, with a low around 52. West wind around 9 mph.
Saturday: A chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. Mostly sunny. High near 75, with temperatures falling to around 71 in the afternoon. South wind 5 to 12 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Saturday Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 9pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms between 9pm and midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 52. South southwest wind 6 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 16 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Saturday Night: Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Mostly Cloudy, 52°F
Sunday: Mostly Sunny, 78°F
Sunday Night: Mostly Clear, 51°F
Monday: Mostly Sunny then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 72°F
Monday Night: Showers And Thunderstorms Likely, 47°F
Tuesday: Showers And Thunderstorms Likely, 62°F
Tuesday Night: Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 42°F
Wednesday: Mostly Sunny then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 65°F
Wednesday Night: Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Partly Cloudy, 45°F
Thursday: Mostly Sunny then Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 72°F
Thursday Night: Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Partly Cloudy, 47°F
Friday: Mostly Sunny then Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 72°F
News Relating to Golden - May 18, 2024
Students revamp, improve everyday objects in Cornerstone Design
By Jasmine Leonas
Colorado School of Mines Newsroom
Everyday objects aren’t always well designed. From poor ergonomics to bad aesthetics to wasteful or unsustainable materials, many of the things we use all the time can be improved.
Mines students in the Spring 2024 Cornerstone Design Competition took on the challenge to make existing objects more useful and less wasteful. The teams presented their solutions at a final in-person pitch event May 2... Read more...
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