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What's Happening in Golden - Tuesday, May. 19th, 2026

News and events in Golden, Colorado. Tuesday, May. 19th, 2026

,   and  Barb Warden
11 min read
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Much-needed Rain

Photo by Richard Luckin
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What's happening in Golden today?

Events for Tuesday, May. 19th

Golden History Tours
Baby Time - Registration Required
Preschool Time - Registration Required
Hand Embroidery Stitchers
Team Trivia Tuesday @ Buffalo Rose

For more information, click the item above or visit the Golden Today Calendar

8-9AM What's Brewing Golden @ Connects Workspace Red Rocks

This monthly meeting will be on the 3rd Tuesday of each month from 8:00 to 9:00 a.m.  Each month you will hear an update from City Council, DDA, City of Golden Police, and the Chamber, along with a business spotlight. We hope to see you there! 

This meeting is open to all businesses within the Golden area but with a focus on small businesses and restaurants within the City limits of Golden. This meeting is provided as a service by the Golden Chamber of Commerce. Chamber membership is highly encouraged but is not required to attend. Guests are welcome. More information

Location:

Connects Workspace Red Rocks
18475 West Colfax Avenue   (Map)

9AM Golden Seniors - KaffeeKlatsch @ Golden Welcome Center

Hey, Golden Seniors!  Join your friends at the Welcome Center for coffee and conversation!  We meet on the Creekside Patio or the Heritage Community Boardroom.  Sponsored by the Golden Welcome Center, Golden Pond Retirement Community and the Rotary Club of Golden.

Location:

Golden Welcome Center
1010 Washington Avenue   (Map)

10-11AM Story Time and Craft @ The Railroad Museum

Join staff and volunteers at the Colorado Railroad Museum as they share some of their favorite children’s stories with a decidedly railroad theme followed by a fun make and take. Recommended ages 4-6 years old. More information

Free for Museum Members and included with general admission.

Location:

Colorado Railroad Museum
17155 W. 44th Avenue   (Map)

11:30AM-1PM Spring Potluck @ Front Porch

Front Porch Golden Community Center - Clear Creek Rooms

Please join the Front Porch for our quarterly Potluck, Tuesday May 19th from 11:30-1:00. The Front Porch welcomes professional musical guests Warren Kennison on banjo and Dave Greenwald on guitar. Doors open at 11:30 and music starts at 12:15. The Front Porch will be providing the protein, and you are encouraged to bring a dish to share. Active Older Adults aged 50+ More information

Location:

Golden Community Center
1470 10th Street   (Map)

4:15-5:15PM Sow-a-Saurus @ Golden Library

Dig, plant, and roar at Golden Library! Venture into the depths of our garden to unearth the science of soil health! Discover if your dirt is "dino-mite" for growing and practice your green thumb by planting seasonal flowers and veggies. Register

Location:

Golden Library
1019 10th Street   (Map)

6-7:45PM Golden Beer Talks @ Buffalo Rose

Topic: Going to Extremes to Uncover the Secrets of Dinosaur National Monument’s Ponderosa Pine
Speaker: Dr. Becky Brice – USGS
Brewery: Mad Mack’s Brewing

U.S. National Parks and Monuments are tasked with planning for climate change impacts on their natural resources. One aspect of such climate readiness is the documentation of unique resources that may hold specific sensitivity in a warmer, drier future. While ponderosa pine is common in western North American lower montane forests, small and isolated old-growth stands are unusual. Dinosaur National Monument’s isolated ponderosa pine trees on the meander benches of the Yampa and Green rivers are a unique, undocumented resource of ecological and cultural importance. Their tree rings also hold the potential to reveal new insights about the environmental conditions leading to their establishment and sustainability. A clear understanding of the prevalence, age, and environmental information contained in these trees may be critical to their management now and conservation in the future. But, to study these trees, researchers must go to extremes on the wild rivers of Dinosaur National Monument.

Becky Brice is an earth systems geographer using tree rings and lake sediments to study paleoclimate, hydroclimatic processes, wildfire, and the interaction between drought and human systems. She specializes in tree-ring based reconstructions over the last 2,000 years and her research aims to understand the role of climate variability in changing environmental conditions. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in French, a Bachelor of Science in Geology, Master’s in Geography from the University of Denver, and a PhD in Geography from the University of Arizona. She has a dual role at the United States Geological Survey where she conducts research about past water and climate and manages national-scale wildland fire-science teams.

What is Golden Beer Talks?

An evening hosted by Golden Beer Talks centers around a brief, informative and entertaining presentation by an expert on an irresistibly enticing topic. Each event features beer for sale from one of our local breweries, along with a variety of delicious food and drink offerings from the Buffalo Rose kitchen and bar.

It's Golden's own grassroots version of TED talks for the benefit of our own local community--and just for the fun of it. Golden Beer Talks is a nonprofit venture focused on three favorite local things--Golden and Beer and Talking!

How This Works

The Buffalo Rose will open at 6:00 p.m. Food and drink service will begin at 6:00 p.m. and the program will begin around 6:30 p.m. Following the presentation, we’ll take a brief intermission for Q + A. We’ll wrap up around 7:45 p.m., but people are welcome to stay a bit longer to chat with the speakers.

Learn more at www.goldenbeertalks.org.

Location:

Buffalo Rose
1119 Washington Avenue   (Map)

6-8PM Spring Detox Juices: Herbs, Juice & Veggies @ Earth Sweet Boutique

Welcome spring the natural way with delicious, vibrant juices made with whole foods.  Your body knows how to detox on its own!  All we need to do is provide the vitamins and minerals needed to empower this process.  Come learn about herbs, fruits and veggies to support spring detox, improve energy, and encourage glowing skin.  No juicer required!

We'll make and taste a glowing green juice, an irresistible red, and a radiant orange juice.  You'll take home tried-and-true recipes, too! $42 Register

Location:

Earth Sweet Boutique
1224 Arapahoe Street   (Map)

The Golden Word - 05/19/26

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Golden History: Fashionable Bonnets, Excellent Grass, and Sinister Men on a Darkening Road

Left: May 19, 1869 Colorado Transcript | Right: Transcript printing office - Golden History Museum collection
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The Colorado Transcript has been covering Golden since December of 1866. It was a valuable resource for Golden residents of the time and is an unending delight for Golden history fans.

157 Years Ago
Here are a few items from the May 19, 1869 Colorado Transcript.

Clark & Doolittle Store on Washington Avenue – Denver Public Library Western History Collection – enlarge

Mrs. Johnson, at her millinery store, adjoining Clark & Doolittle’s, has received another invoice of fashionable bonnets, ribbons, artificial flowers, and other trimmings, making her stock very complete. She is glad to assure the ladies of this vicinity that there is no longer any need of their going away from here for goods in her line, as she has all the latest fashions, and will sell as cheap as any similar establishment.

Grass and water on North Table Mountain (2007) – enlarge

The fine stock ranch on the north Table Mountain is this year in charge of Messrs. Gainer, Gorman & Co., all careful and responsible men, who will see that all stock entrusted to their care is well cared for. The range is one of the best in the country, being enclosed either by fence or impassable rocks. Grass is excellent, the entire mountain having been burned over this spring, with plenty of fresh living water at all seasons. They have a new advertisement in this issue.

Here’s one last piece that caught my attention:

We had hoped that the day for Vigilance Committees in Colorado had passed forever, and we now believe that our laws are all-sufficient for the punishment of crime, but it seems that all do not think so. On last Friday we visited Denver and being detained later than usual, we started for home a little after dark. As we were approaching the F street bridge, and about to drive upon it, we came suddenly upon a crowd of men, who were very quietly standing on the bridge. The bridles of our horses were seized from either side by two of them while several others approached our buggy, one of whom asked if we had seen anything…we said “yes.”

I thought it was going to be a tale of armed robbery, but was relieved to learn that it was a promotion for a dry goods store.

Then they told us that packages they were carrying were bought at Peabody’s, and that if we would let the people of Jefferson county know that Peabody was selling dry goods, clothing, etc., cheaper than any house in Denver, we could depart in peace. We departed, hence this local.

Weather

Overnight's Weather

Overnight: A chance of snow showers and patchy fog. Cloudy. Low around 33, with temperatures rising to around 35 overnight. Northeast wind around 3 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Tuesday's Weather

Tuesday: A chance of snow showers and patchy fog before 9am, then a slight chance of rain and snow showers between 9am and noon, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Cloudy. High near 46, with temperatures falling to around 43 in the afternoon. East wind 1 to 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Tuesday Night's Weather

Tuesday Night: Rain showers likely. Cloudy. Low around 39, with temperatures rising to around 42 overnight. West southwest wind 1 to 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

Tuesday Night: Rain Showers Likely, 39°F

Wednesday: Showers And Thunderstorms Likely, 57°F

Wednesday Night: Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Partly Cloudy, 40°F

Thursday: Mostly Sunny then Showers And Thunderstorms Likely, 65°F

Thursday Night: Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 44°F

Friday: Slight Chance Rain Showers then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 64°F

Friday Night: Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Mostly Cloudy, 44°F

Saturday: Mostly Sunny then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 71°F

Saturday Night: Partly Cloudy, 49°F

Sunday: Sunny, 78°F

Sunday Night: Partly Cloudy, 53°F

Memorial Day: Sunny then Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 81°F

Supporters

Many thanks to the people and organizations who support What’s Happening in Golden?  If you would like to support local news, please CLICK HERE!

Sponsors:
($100/month or $1,175/year)
Buffalo Rose, Buglet Battery, Foothills Art Center, Golden Cultural Alliance, Miners Alley Performing Arts Center, The Golden Mill, Golden Chamber of Commerce, Golden History Tours, Miners Saloon, Clothilde Elingbow, Michael Mason, Earth Sweet Boutique, and Colorado Railroad Museum

Friends:
($50-99.99/month or $575/yr)
Tall Pines Painting, Baby Doe’s Clothing, Paul Haseman, Donna Anderson, Carol & Doug Harwood, Stephanie Painter, Greg Poulos, Ann Norton & Jonathan Storer, Mary & Don Parker, Saré Merrigan, The Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, Vic DeMaria, Unite Fitness, and Joy Brandt

Supporters:
($25-49.99/month or $285/yr)
Laura King and Scott Wilson, Bobby German and Alison McNally, Forrest Jones, Barry & Liz Bettis, Cheryl & Tom Schweich, in memory of Marjorie Sloan, Chris and Joyce Davell, Rick Flint, Forrest Jones, Cynthia Merrill Tamny, Stephen Pero, Meg Van Ness & Steve Kalasz, Steve & Karla Schaefer, Bud Rockhill, Steve Enger, Kristie Brice & Mike Schwartz, The Golden Hotel, Kurt & Janet Siegfried, Ella Lyons & Jeanne Fritch, Robert Thresher, Tonie Mattox, Centennial State Wealth Advisors, Steve & M.L. Richardson, Jeremy & Stephanie Keller, AC Development, Golden PT & Pilates, and Frank Young & Terre Deegan-Young

Members:
($10-24.99/month or $115/yr)
Brad Miller & Julie Bartos, Holly Thomas, Jim and LouAnne Dale, Ann Pattison, Thomas Hoffman, Carol Abel, Brian Quarnstrom, Sandra Curran, Bobby German and Alison McNally, Kathy Smith, Karen Smith, Carlos & Nancy Bernal, Robert Storrs, Michele Sannes, Elaine Marolla, Dixie Termin & Ron Miller, E Tom Hughes, Crystal M Culbert, Patrick A. Madison, Alice Madison & Jim Kalivas, Deb Goeldner, Christopher Ball, 6th Chair Home Services, Dot & Eric Brownson, Rosemary Coffman, Emeline Paulson, Sandy Schneider, Mark and Cathy Pattridge, Cheryl G Leidich, Jen Rutter, Frani R Bickart, Jennings and Litz, Bill Sedgeley, Nancy Hughes, Justin L Wade, Kathi Eggers, Traci Case, Donna Owen, Leslie D Lutz, Karen Oxman, Catherine Skokan, Ross Fraser & KC Gilliland, Lynne Haigh, Elizabeth Hilliard, Kathy Hirons & Jack Markin, Jess & Anthony Monasterio, Heather Duncan, Lee Ann & Pete Horneck, Carol Cameron, Cheryl Williamson, San Daugherty, Jim Garner, John and Carol McEncroe, the Golden Welcome Center, the Golden Transcript, Koshare Eagle, Ken and Colleen Krantz, Traci Neuman Lacey, Jo Barber, Jamie Cookinham, Kermit Shields, Meridee Cecil, Colleen & Michael Ramey, Nancy & Pete Torpey, Jax Baker, Simon Maybury, Rose McLaughlin, Cameron Chambers, Joyce Gravina, Patrick Klein, Barb Robie, Richard Caldwell, Janice Waring, Sam & Marilyn Baron, Carmen Johnson, Mary Eiberger, Kevin Nichols, Ed & Carol Freza, Laura and Curtis Moore, Ruth Hund, Shelley & Jerry Devitt, Eileen Masterson, Kate Olivier, Amy Korengut, Pam Logan, Clare Shier, Wendy Weiman, Marge Frueh. Nannette Johnson, Edgar Walker, Bivy Beer Bar, Nancy Cooper, Jane & Mike Templeton, and Vicki Greivel

Followers:
($5-9.99/month or $55/year)
Golden Community Garden, Lora Haimes, Mariane Erickson, J.J. Fraser, Mel Perkins, Bob Hamilton, Steve Stevens, Vicki Olson, Emily Kurzinski, Nanette Johnson, Peyton Gibson, Sally Berger, Kristen Morgan, Joyce Sutton, Mary Rains, Craig Champlin, Stan Swisher, Bill Way, Chris Toney, Alicia Zimmerman, Tamara Feucht, Carie Chimbel, GoldenBrokers, and Elizabeth Coil

Highlights