MAGIC MOUNTAIN Exhibit Museum GRAND REOPENING

DISCOVER SUMMER 2018

Museum GRAND REOPENING June 23

MAGIC MOUNTAIN Exhibit DISCOVER I SUMMER 2018 IN THIS ISSUE Cover Image: Upper Crossing, by Greg Harlin

GHM&P Top Ten

Director’s Welcome Summer Camp Behind the Scenes

his June, the Golden History I look forward to welcoming you to Programs Museum reopens its doors after the renewed Golden History Museum on a six-month closure to renovate Saturday, June 23 from 10 am to 4:30 pm T Golden History Museum the building’s public spaces. The renovation for a FREE public open house. Be inspired Grand Reopening: is the first major step of theDiscovery Awaits by some of the amazing biographies in the What to Expect at GHM campaign—an institutional initiative to better Legendary People exhibit. Witness some of connect with and serve the community the formative moments that made Golden Volunteer Profile through enriching programming, improved in Epic Events. Explore the many unique Alice Dempsey access to collections and content, and fun, artifacts never before seen in the History Lab. engaging experiences for visitors of all ages. Roll up your sleeves and play in the hands-on Magic Mountain Exhibit In the following pages of this newsletter, Touch Gallery. At Golden History Museum we’ll share with you some of the many & Park, there is always something Membership exciting Museum initiatives that are engaging new to see. Discovery Awaits! and inspiring visitors through sharing Donors’ Corner and preserving Golden’s history.

Astor House Update Above The Clouds Nathan Richie, Director

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TEN Discovery Awaits: Renovation of Golden History Museum Grand Reopening June 23, 2018.

Building Colorado fourth-grade classroom program. More than 8,000 Colorado students served. Aligns with history and economics standards. Third-grade program launches in 2018. Photo © Jim Rabiolo

Golden City Trading Post field trip experience. Over 2,000 K-5 students served in May 2018. Two dozen cultural partners provided enrichment experiences.

Over 3,012 volunteer hours donated to museum last year. Accomplishments include 10,000 honeybees installed at Golden History Park in April.

Artifact conservation program. Paintings, textiles, books, paper, furniture preserved for future generations. Photo © Scott Dressel-Martin

Historic rehabilitation completed on 150-year-old Astor House. Examining new community uses for building.

Received $25,000 IMLS grant to produce boarding house film with Rocky Mountain PBS for the Colorado Experience.

Partnering with Jefferson County Archives to digitize 150 years of Colorado Transcript and Golden Transcript. Available online today at Colorado Historic Newspaper Collection.

Partnering with Denver Museum of Nature and Science to display never-before-seen objects excavated from Magic Mountain Archaeological site. Tours and programs in summer 2018.

Hands-on History camp voted best summer camp in Golden. Serves over 300 6- to 12-year-olds.

Photo © Denver Museum of Nature & Science Photo © Scott Dressel-Martin

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Photos © Scott Dressel-Martin

ands-on History camp is right their creativity for five full days. Silent around the corner! We are really Stars has been one of the most popular H looking forward to welcoming all camp themes and proved this by selling of our campers and their families back out in March. We have added additional to the Golden History Park for some spaces to four of the eight weeks to summer fun. We are bringing back five accommodate the demand for this camp favorite camps from previous years while and we are excited to see what our continuing to improve and add activities. creative campers produce this summer! This year, our Silent Stars camp builds on previous half-day camps with the same Visit GoldenHistory.org/HOH to see if theme and now allows campers to use any spots remain for you and your family. Behind the Scenes series of new videos provide some insight into the Golden History A Museum construction process. Learn how new walls, new windows, and diamond-smoothed floors were created and then compare to the real thing on your first visit in June. Bookmark the blog so you can find future updates at GoldenHistory.org/blog. Also, leave us a comment and tell us what you think! Thanks for watching!

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here are so many exciting programs scheduled for upcoming months that we can’t fit all the descriptions in this newsletter. T For full details and to register, please go to GoldenHistory.org/events. All programs will be held at Golden History Museum, 923 10th St., unless otherwise noted.

Remember that advance registration is required for most programs, even when free. Programs will be canceled if minimum attendance number is not reached 24 hours prior November 8, 2018 World War I: Making the World to start time. Help us provide even more programming by signing up and attending! Safe for Democracy 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Free for members Free for everyone Free for members; $10 non-members Coinciding with the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, Martin C. Babicz, Ph.D. will explore July 14, 2018 America’s role during the Great War and how the June 23, 2018 Golden Sketch Walk so-called “War to End All Wars” impacted life in the Golden History Museum Grand Reopening 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. United States. Dr. Babicz will examine how the Wilson Free for all; no registration required Free for members; $10 non-members administration directed the war effort and managed Celebrate the 80th anniversary of Golden History American society to quickly and efficiently convert a Museum with a grand reopening and free admission July 30, 2018 nation of 100 million people into a well-organized war from 10 am—4:30 pm on Saturday, June 23, 2018. Archaeology of Golden’s machine. He will also look at the turmoil that erupted See new programming spaces, a research center, a Magic Mountain: Part Two in the United States following the end of the war. hands-on gallery for families with young children, 5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. and dynamic new exhibits that highlight the City’s Free for members (DMNS and GHM); November 11, 2018 Time Capsule 1968 collection of historic objects. $10 non-members 10:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. August 2, 2018 Free for all; no registration required June 28, 2018 The Kansas City Monarchs in Our Hometown Colorado Experience: Amusements 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. November 30, 2018 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Free for members; $10 non-members Candlelight Walk Free for all; registration required Golden History Museum & Golden History Park August 9, 2018 7:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. Holidaily Brewery Tour and Lunch Free for all; no registration required Holidaily Brewery 10 a.m. - 12p.m. December 10, 2018 $25 members; $35 non-members Vietnam War 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. August 16, 2018 Free for members; $10 non-members Edible Wild Plants of Colorado: What to eat when Safeway is closed January 16, 2019 5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. The Story of Reuben Benton Free for members; $10 non-members Hayward’s Murder—Part 1 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. August 27, 2018 Free for members; $10 non-members Colorado Experience: Paleo-Indians Sarah Hayward and her daughters, 13-year-old Cora 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. and 11-year-old Minnie, watched as Rueben Benton Free for all; registration required Hayward slapped reins to the bays that pulled his wagon down the lane toward Mount Vernon Canyon. October 3, 2018 With him in the wagon were two strangers, purportedly July 13, 2018 The Origins of the Colorado Territory dish washers from the Overland Hotel in Golden, who Historic Brewing with 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. had asked him for a ride to the Rooney Ranch. The Avery Brewing Company Free for members; $10 non-members date was September 10, 1879, and it was the last 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. time Sarah and the girls would see Rueben alive. Free for members; $10 non-members October 18, 2018 Travis Rupp, lecturer at CU Boulder, and Beer 1968 – The Year of Turmoil February 4, 2019 Archaeologist and Innovation & Wood Cellar 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Rowdy Colorado Manager at Avery Brewing Company, will give a Free for members; $10 non-members 5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. lecture on the development of his Ales of Antiquity Free for members; $10 non-members Series. The program will focus on his most recent October 27, 2018 research regarding early monastic brewing, ancient Golden Cemetery Tour February 20, 2019 beer culture in the environs of the Dead Sea, and Golden Cemetery The Story of Reuben Benton Hayward’s ancient Iberian brewing. He will also discuss his 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Murder—Part 2 newest project which brings the Ales of Antiquity 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Series home to Golden, Colorado. Free for members; $10 non-members Free for members; $10 non-members

DISCOVER I GoldenHistory.org 5 DISCOVERY AWA I T S What to Expect atGHM On June 23, 2018, Golden History Museum will reopen to the delight of guests. Here’s a taste of some of the exciting things awaiting you to be discovered…

Ponder what life would have been like if you had lived in Golden 6,000 years ago. See some of the never-before-seen artifacts Get eye-to-eye from the collection of the Denver Museum with one of Colorado’s of Nature and Science excavated from the most important Magic Mountain Archaeological Site. pioneers, William Loveland. Check out his recently cleaned and conserved portrait hanging in The Salon.

Find clues Explore the news throughout the of Golden in the newly museum and solve digitized Colorado a history puzzle with Transcript collection the Amazing Mystery in the History Lab. Switchboard! Can What happened on you crack the code? your birthday in 1870?

6 DISCOVER I SUMMER 2018 DISCOVERY AWA I T S Essanay production crew at Dennis & Cunningham livery, 1909 Photo © Golden History Museum & Park Collection

Get caught up in early Tinseltown magic watching The Ranchman’s Rival—a 1909 silent movie filmed in Golden—in The Let the kids be your museum guide with Salon theatre. the help of the History Champions! Go on a scavenger hunt, participate in fun activities, and win a prize!

Get hands-on in Inventors, artists, Touch Gallery and athletes and more! learn about Golden’s rich clay mining Find inspiration with history. Build an some of Golden’s amazing block Legendary People. fort and discover how clay is made into bricks. A young Lindsey Horan, 1999. Photo © Photo © Justin Golden History Museum & Park Collection LeVett Photography

Imagine the thrills and chills of Golden’s Disney-inspired Magic Mountain Amusement Park. Pore over the detailed hand renderings of exciting rides and lands—some of which were built and others Delight in family story time. Listen to that never came to be. a fun tale and make a craft to take home!

Help others discover the past and help the museum save history for the future. Become a museum volunteer! Visit GoldenHistory.org/volunteer

Photo © Golden History Museum & Park Collection DISCOVER I GoldenHistory.org 7 eople from all 50 states and from Welcoming these visitors and guiding other countries in the world visit them through a happy experience of visiting Volunteer P the Golden History Museum. How do the museum and its exhibits is often just I know this? Well, on Wednesday mornings, part of my job. I am the volunteer at the front desk. As GHM visitors often ask about other Profile guests come in the front door, I greet them. experiences in Golden. They might want Often, I ask if this is their first visit and if to visit another museum and I can give By Andi Pearson they reply, “Yes,” I ask where they are from. directions to Foothills Art Center or the I never cease to be amazed by the replies. Colorado Railroad Museum. They might be One Wednesday, a lovely family of five looking for lunch and I can guide them to came in. As I was taking their admission fee, a sandwich or a pizza or a sit-down meal. I asked my usual question. Probably the most unusual request I’ve had “Oh, we’re from France,” replied the came from a well-groomed gentleman who, father of the group. along with his wife, was visiting Colorado “How interesting,” I replied. “How long for the first time. He wanted a souvenir. have you been in the US?” “Where can I get a cowhide leather “This is our first day here,” replied wallet?” he asked. the dad. Fortunately, I was able to guide him to a “Your first day and you chose to come local shop – of course, I don’t know whether visit us! That’s wonderful! We’re so glad or not he found the wallet he was looking you’re here!” for but at least he had a pleasant experience Frequently, visitors to GHM are related and a helpful person at the front desk and to a student at the Colorado School of Mines I had yet another interesting day at the – parents, siblings, grandparents – many Golden History Museum! of them visit the museum while they are in Golden for awards ceremonies, graduations Photo © Wendy Wood Photography or just a visit with a family member.

t age 96 Alice still has lots of living Her publications include a two-volume Legendary People to do. “I still have not lived in a set of her human-interest stories titled A tree house,” said Alice, among People Leaving Footprints in Golden. other things. She also authored a book about Native Alice Alice grew up in Quincy, Illinois. Hobbies Americans called Their Heritage and included tap- and toe-dancing and playing Hope: Five Generations of the life and the violin. After graduation, she joined times of an Oglala-Lakota Sioux Family. Dempsey the staff of the Chicago Daily Tribune, In 2003 she was honored as a living working as a daily feature writer and then landmark by the Golden Landmarks as assistant to the travel editor. Following Association. In her free time Alice is an marriage to Ed and starting a family that active member of the Pioneer Delphian numbered seven, she and her family moved Study Club and St. Joseph Catholic to Golden in 1968. Church, where she played the violin for Alice’s husband, Ed, drove their two many years. She also loves hiking and eldest children out to Golden, settled into traveling the southwest, and going on their new home and then flew back to “digs” with her geologist son, Michael. Chicago to pack up the rest of the family. Alice’s current words to live by: Life Ed arranged with Heinie Foss, owner of the isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. Foss Drug Store and lunchroom, to have the It’s about learning to dance in the rain. kids eat their meals at Foss Drug, put their bill on a tab, and he would settle up on his Learn about Alice and many return, several weeks later. From 1970-1992 Alice wrote at least 630 other famous Goldenites in the articles for the Golden Transcript newspaper. exhibit Legendary People. Her stories covered the many interesting people from the Golden area and often led to lifelong friendships.

8 DISCOVER I SUMMER 2018 ‘Upper Crossing’ by Greg Harlin

Magic Mountain Exhibit

t the base of Apex For at least 6,000 years, objects discovered nearby A Paleoamericans built semi-permanent give tidbits of information about camps all along the Front Range. These the Paleoindians’ culture and worldview. Canyon, along the cool, camps were often located near sandstone This summer, Golden History Museum outcroppings for shelter and protection. & Park partners with the Denver Museum spring-fed waters of Lena The settlement of Magic Mountain—located of Nature and Science (DMNS) to exhibit on Golden’s south side and named for a artifacts discovered at the site for the first Gulch and buried beneath short-lived nearby amusement park—is one time ever. The exhibit will coincide with of the most famous and important ancient an excavation of the Magic Mountain site sites of the Denver Basin. led by DMNS curator of anthropology Dr. layers of sediment, lie While relatively little is yet known Michele Koons. Visitors will be able to tour about these people, artifacts recovered by the archaeological dig, try their hand at the ruined remains of scientists are beginning to shed light on excavation, and visit the exhibit at GHM Colorado’s earliest inhabitants. Golden’s to see some of the fascinating artifacts. an ancient human first settlers were semi-nomadic people who hunted game and gathered wild herbs. Artifacts discovered at Magic Mountain See the Magic Mountain exhibit settlement. show signs of routine daily work—butchering at Golden History Museum meat, preparing hides, making weapons starting June 23, 2018. and cooking food. Burials, beads, and other

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our financial support of Golden History Museum Y & Park is always greatly appreciated, and there are several ways to help. A gift of stock may be right for you. Even with recent fluctuations in the market, this is an excellent time to give a gift to Golden History Museum & Park. Of course, contributions are tax deductible and will be put to excellent use inside the newly renovated Museum. Simply call your financial advisor and say the word. Our tax ID # is 84-6000591.

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City of Golden Astor House Update

n 2016, Astor House closed to undergo a major structural rehabilitation. The I foundation was shored, basement retaining walls poured, new steel beams and columns installed, and new water drainage system built. The museum, which suffered years of declining attendance, remains closed to review new options to have a more vital and sustainable operation. This year, a Request for Proposals (RFP) will solicit ideas for uses of the building. For more information on Astor House, the rehabilitation, and plans for the building, visit GoldenHistory.org/blog.

Clouds

hen Golden History Museum reopens on June 23, the exterior walls will feature W a new exhibit: Golden Above the Clouds. Showcasing four 8-foot-tall images by local photographer Andrew Terrill, this large-scale exhibit will reveal Golden from a perspective that few people see. To view the photographs, simply visit GHM, or visit the photographer’s website: AndrewTerrillPhotography.com