Lilacs in the History Park
Photo by Andi Pearson
What's happening in Golden today?
Events for Sunday, May. 12th
- All day - CURRENT EXHIBITS AT THE MUSEUMS
- All day - Golden History Tours
- All day - Church Services
- 9:30-11:30AM - Full Walking Tour @ Dinosaur Ridge
- 10AM-2PM - Mother's Day Brunch at the Rose
- 2-4PM - Sunday at the Museum - 4 Common Corner's Panel | Thorns & Spikes
- 2PM - The Full Monty
- 3-5PM - Community Garden Workday
- 4-7:30PM - Sunday Swing Supper Club
- 5-9PM - Board Game Night
For more information, click the item above or visit the Golden Today Calendar
2PM Mother's Day Sunday at the Museum: 4 Common Corner's Panel | Thorns & Spikes
4 Common Corners is a group of fiber artists drawn together by their immersion in the unique beauty of the four corners region of the southwest United States. They bring together divergent viewpoints and artistic styles to create cohesive, thematically linked art exhibitions unique to the 4 corners region to share with the world, while promoting the career of each member as an individual artist. More information
Their exhibit is on Now - July 20, 2024.Members Free | Non-Members $15
Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum
200 Violet Street, Suite 150 (map)
What's Blooming Along Golden's Trails?
Figure 1. Fendler's Ragwort in the quarry on North Table Mountain.Figure 1. Fendler's Ragwort in the quarry on North Table Mountain.
by Tom Schweich
There are so many plants just starting to bloom along our trails in Golden’s open spaces, it is hard to pick just one.
One of my favorites is the diminutive Fendler’s Ragwort — Packera fendleri (A. Gray) W.A. Weber & A. Love. Often just 4 to 6 inches tall and growing in rocks or gravel, Fendler's Ragwort is found on North and South Table Mountains, Schweich Hill, and in Kinney Run.
Our plant has clusters of 6 to 8 bright yellow flower heads on a stalk rising from a cluster of woolly leaves that have crinkly edges. Because it is in the Sunflower family (Asteraceae), each head has 20 to 50 small flowers, some with long ray petals and some with very short petals that don’t look like petals at all.
Fendler’s Ragwort was described by Dr. Asa Gray, probably America’s most important botanist of the 19th century, in his paper Plantae Fendlerianae Novi-Mexicanae, or “Fendler’s New Mexican Plants.” During the Mexican American War in 1846, Augustus
Fendler traveled with the U.S Army to Santa Fe, New Mexico. While there for about a year, Fendler collected some 17,000 specimens, sending them to Dr. Gray, who identified and named them. Among Fendler’s collections was our little, yellow-flowered plant that Fendler found along the Santa Fe River about 12 miles northeast of the town of Santa Fe.
Dr. Gray placed our plant in genus Senecio, the genus typically known as the Ragworts. However, collaboration between William A. Weber and Askell & Doris Love at the University of Colorado – Boulder resulted in the separation of the genus Packera from Senecio and the placement of our plant in the new genus as Packera fendleri (A. Gray) W.A. Weber & A. Love, though still with the common name of Fendler’s Ragwort.
Mother's Day at the Buffalo Rose
Mother's Day Brunch at the Buffalo Rose - photo of tulips and listing of buffet options
10AM-2PM What does Mom want for Mother's Day? Reservations! Take her to brunch at the Buffalo Rose to feast on ham, sausage, eggs, shrimp, fruit, and so much more (including bottomless mimosas).
4-7:30PM Later on, enjoy big band music together with Sunday Swing. The doors open at 4, and they offer a free dance lesson from 4-5PM. Flatirons Jazz Orchestra plays live swing music from 5-7:30PM.
Buffalo Rose
1119 Washington Avenue (map)
Live Music for Sunday, May. 12th
- 4-7PM: Johnny O @ Buffalo Rose
- More Live Music
3-7PM Midnight Vinyl @ Wrigley’s
4-7PM Jeff Goodwin @ Over Yonder
8PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern
For more information, visit the Golden Today Calendar
Golden History: Watch Out For Cranks
Early photo of Golden showing the gulch created by Kinney Run – Dan Abbott collection
We’ve done a lot of grading over the past 150 years in Golden. In reading old Transcripts, I often come across references to bridges that we no longer need to cross dips and gulches that we have since bulldozed away. Kinney Run used to create a significant gulch just east of East Street. That terrain has been flattened over time. Kinney Run has been contained, first in an underground pipe (1959-1922) and more recently in a deep concrete trench.
103 Years Ago
The May 12, 1921 Colorado Transcript gives prominent placement to the article, “Baptist Minister Seriously Hurt by Runaway Auto – Rev. Kelly is Caught on the Bumper of Big Car Which Runs Wild–Narrowly Escapes Death.” The pastor of the Baptist church was getting ready to leave his house on 13th Street and was standing in front of the Overland brand automobile, getting ready to crank the engine to start it.
Unfortunately, the car had been left in gear, and as soon as the engine started, the car leaped forward. The parson was caught by the bumper and dragged eastbound on 13th Street. The road sloped down towards Kinney run, but fortunately(?) the car hit a tree before it reached the gulch. “Had the runaway machine gone twenty feet further down the road it would have plunged into Kinney gulch, and Rev. Kelly could not have escaped being crushed.” As it was, he broke a shoulder and a rib and had severe cuts and bruises on his head, face, and limbs. “He is now resting fairly easy, and will recover unless complications set in.”
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: Rain showers. Cloudy, with a low around 46. West northwest wind around 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Sunday: Rain showers likely before 9am, then showers and thunderstorms likely between 9am and 2pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Cloudy, with a high near 63. North northwest wind 7 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Sunday Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms before 10pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 45. Northwest wind 8 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
Sunday Night: Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Partly Cloudy, 45°F
Monday: Sunny then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 71°F
Monday Night: Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Partly Cloudy, 50°F
Tuesday: Partly Sunny then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 72°F
Tuesday Night: Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 47°F
Wednesday: Showers And Thunderstorms, 60°F
Wednesday Night: Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Mostly Cloudy, 44°F
Thursday: Mostly Sunny then Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 66°F
Thursday Night: Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Partly Cloudy, 48°F
Friday: Sunny then Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 75°F
Friday Night: Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Mostly Clear, 49°F
Saturday: Mostly Sunny then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 77°F
News Relating to Golden - May 12, 2024
Golden History Park hosts hundreds of local students for Discovery Days
By Corinne Westeman
Golden Transcript
After all those days sitting in their classrooms, learning about Colorado’s pioneer settlements and mining history, local elementary school students had a chance to experience some of it firsthand.
The Golden History Museum & Park hosted its annual Discovery Days May 9-10 for elementary school students from Golden and beyond... Read more...
Golden and Valor girls golf teams complete 4-peat
By Dennis Pleuss
Golden Transcript
Ski caps and hoodies were in fashion during the final Jeffco League girls golf tournament on Thursday at Indian Tree Golf Club.
With temperatures hanging round 50 degrees, Golden and Valor Christian stayed hot. The Demons (Class 4A) and Eagles (Class 5A) both claimed their fourth straight Jeffco League team championship... Read more...
Golden girls soccer defeats Pueblo West 2-1, advances in 4A state tourney
By Corinne Westeman
Golden Transcript
The No. 7-ranked Golden girls soccer team is off to a strong start in the 4A state championship tournament, after taking down No. 26 Pueblo West 2-1 on May 8... Read more...
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