The Pillars
Photo by Bud Rockhill
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What's happening in Golden today?
Events for Thursday, Oct. 17th
- All day - CURRENT EXHIBITS AT THE MUSEUMS
- All day - Live Workouts with Community Center Pros
- All day - Golden History Tours
- 5:26AM - Full Moon
- 7:30AM - Golden Young Professionals Monthly Membership Meeting
- 9AM-4PM - Monster Quest
- 9AM-4PM - Monster Quest
- 9:15-9:45AM - Baby Time - Registration Required
- 10-10:30AM - Call In: Mid-Morning Meditation
- 3-4:30PM - Vaccine, License & Microchip Clinic
- 3-4PM - Dia de los Muertos: A Living Tradition Making Artisan Crafts / Día de Los Muertos: Una Tradición Viva Haciendo Artesanias
- 3-4PM - Dia de los Muertos: A Living Tradition Making Artisan Crafts / Día de Los Muertos: Una Tradición Viva Haciendo Artesanias
- 4-11PM - Cheese Night with Cheese Ranch!
- 5-7PM - Golden American Legion Dinner
- 6PM - Run Club
- 6:30-7:45PM - Skills to Unite as Community
- 6:30-8PM - Wine, Women, and Wealth (WWW) in Golden
- 7PM - Golden Ghosts & Spirits Haunted Pub Crawl Tour
- 7:30PM - Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Elusive Ear
For more information, click the item above or visit the Golden Today Calendar
Día de Los Muertos Crafts @ The Library
In Museo's most popular workshop, students decorate sugar skulls and create paper Marigolds and papel picado. Students will leave this workshop with a better understanding of how life and death are celebrated during Día de Muertos and have a chance to celebrate their own loved ones through art. We will discuss the concept of cultural evolution and explore how colonization has influenced traditions.
REGISTRATION IS FULL, BUT YOU CAN JOIN THE WAIT LIST HERE.
5-7PM Chicken Strip Dinner @ The American Legion
$8 for chicken strips, salad/fruit, and dessert. Public is welcome!
More information
American Legion Post 21
500 9th Street (map)
7PM Golden Ghosts & Spirits Haunted Pub Crawl
There are a few tickets left for tonight's Golden Ghosts & Spirits Haunted Pub Crawl.
This haunted pub crawl tour will guide you through Golden’s raucous past, often in the dark. Your guide will shed some lantern-light on the spirits that still linger around old Golden City, and how to rouse them, if you dare. This is not a ghost hunt; there’s no equipment or devices to prod the scenes, just deliciously devious ghost stories fueled by succulent spirits. Your first beverage is included to kick the night off right!
7:30 Date Night @ Miners Alley!
There are 4 weekends remaining to see Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Elusive Ear. (I saw it last week, and it was delightful!) For the rest of the run, they are offering a special Thursday Date Night deal.
Buy TWO tier one tickets and pay only $72. You'll get two tickets to the play and two drink tickets--woo hoo! Using the online box office, select your seats and when it asks what kind of ticket you want (standard, senior, student), select the "Thursday Date Night" rate. The total for two tickets will magically become $72.
You can also call the box office (303-935-3044) and request the Thursday Date Night rate.
Miners Alley Performing Arts Center
1100 Miners Alley (map)
Live Music for Thursday, Oct. 17th
- 5-8PM Shawn Eckels @ Golden Mill
Golden Mill - More Live Music
5-9PM Josh Blackburn @ Wrigley’s
6PM A Brother's Fountain @ New Terrain Brewing
6:30PM Blü Egyptian @ Over Yonder
8PM Karaoke @ Rock Rest Lodge
For more information, visit the Golden Today Calendar
Golden History: Cemetery/Arboretum
“Entrance to Golden Cemetery” – Denver Public Library Western History Collection
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The photo above was taken in the Golden Cemetery on May 19, 1935. The newly-completed stone warming house appears in the background. On a recent visit to the cemetery, I looked for the markers shown in that photo.
I found the markers–and what a difference 89 years makes! The warming house (now the cemetery office) is still there, but it’s hidden behind a big Colorado Spruce.
Until the mid-1930s, the Golden Cemetery lacked an irrigation system–which meant no trees. Despite the on-going Depression, then-Mayor A. E. Jones made cemetery improvements his personal mission. He asked the public for donations of pipe and cobbled together an irrigation system. Then he encouraged people to donate trees from their own yards. More trees were added in the 1950s, when the City transplanted dozens of evergreens from the Beaver Brook property.
Several particularly fine specimens are now labeled, and the cemetery is beginning to serve a dual purpose as an arboretum.
Many thanks to an anonymous donor for sponsoring Golden History Moments for the month of October.
Weather
Overnight: Mostly clear. Low around 53, with temperatures rising to around 55 overnight. South wind around 10 mph, with gusts as high as 16 mph.
Thursday: A slight chance of rain after 3pm. Partly sunny. High near 72, with temperatures falling to around 68 in the afternoon. Southwest wind 9 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Thursday Night: A slight chance of rain between 7pm and midnight. Mostly cloudy. Low around 49, with temperatures rising to around 52 overnight. Southwest wind 6 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 16 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Thursday Night: Slight Chance Light Rain then Mostly Cloudy, 49°F
Friday: Mostly Cloudy then Light Rain, 58°F
Friday Night: Light Rain, 40°F
Saturday: Light Rain Likely, 49°F
Saturday Night: Chance Light Rain, 42°F
Sunday: Chance Light Rain, 59°F
Sunday Night: Chance Light Rain, 46°F
Monday: Sunny, 64°F
Monday Night: Mostly Clear, 47°F
Tuesday: Sunny, 70°F
Tuesday Night: Mostly Clear, 46°F
Wednesday: Sunny, 67°F
News About Golden - October 17, 2024
Golden-based Holidaily Brewing Co. wins gold for gluten-free beer at Great American Beer Festival
By Ethan Carlson
Denver Channel 7
GOLDEN, Colo. — Holidaily Brewing Company just won the gold medal for best gluten-free beer at the Great American Beer Festival, but the company’s gluten-free journey began after founder Karen Hertz had a run-in with cancer... Read more...
City of Golden Weekly Digest
Coming Attractions: Sherlock Holmes teams with artists to solve a mystery at Miners Alley
By Clarke Reader
Golden Transcript
Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes is one of the world’s most recognizable characters. If you see his name, you know you’re in for all kinds of mind-bending fun. And that’s certainly the case (see what I did there?) with “Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Elusive Ear,” which is running at Miners Alley Playhouse... Read more...
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