by Mark Dodge | Dec 4, 2020 | Collections and Exhibits, Culinary History, Golden Informer
Jolly Rancher treasure trove finds permanent museum home Happy farmers, jolly ranchers and candy cowboys gather ‘round because a premiere Jolly Rancher collection is coming to Golden History Museum & Park. After years of working with members of the Harmsen family,...
by Mark Dodge | Oct 30, 2020 | Collections and Exhibits, Colorado School of Mines
“Flu situation here is getting dangerous,” blared a headline on the front page of Golden’s Colorado Transcript newspaper on Dec. 5, 1918. Though it’s more than 100 years old, this historic news story about Spanish influenza could’ve been written in 2020. “Clearly,...
by Mark Dodge | Sep 18, 2020 | Collections and Exhibits, Golden Informer
Arapahoe City was located north of Clear Creek, west of present-day McIntyre Street approximately two miles east of Golden. Initially, a mining district, and the earliest city in Jefferson County, it was founded on November 28, 1858. Members of the Arapahoe Town...
by Mark Dodge | Sep 12, 2020 | Collections and Exhibits, Memoirs
MEMOIRS of my treck across the Plains, the last time in 1870, and early childhood days. By Mrs. Mary Kalbaugh Whited. Pueblo, Colorado, April, 1948. It was in April, 1870, my Father with his family, also an uncle, Wm. F. Hunter, and family and other neighbors and...
by Mark Dodge | Sep 11, 2020 | Collections and Exhibits, Memoirs
My Polio Story By Betty Herron Gleaton I was recently asked if I had been in an accident by a twenty-something who was referring to my crutches and leg brace. I told him “No,” that I’d had polio and he asked “What’s that? I’ve never heard of it.” My first instinct was...
