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Culinary School with Museum Director Nathan Richie – Salzstangerl
Join us on FB or on YouTube. Austrian Salzstangerl are traditional breakfast or snack bread sticks from the eastern Austrian region of Burgenland on the Hungarian border. This recipe was given to me from my cousin Ingrid from Eisenstadt, Austria. I modified this to...
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Documenting the times – help wanted
Documenting the times I need your help. As curator, I collect and document life in Golden, Colorado. Among other things, you might call me an information broker. I need to be a trusted generalist on all things Golden--the good, the bad, and the ugly. Often, I learn...
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Culinary School with Museum Director Nathan Richie – Bretzel Rolls
Bretzel Rolls (Bavarian Pretzel Bread) As a follow-up to our Facebook Live episode, here are the promised resources. I hope you'll check out all our other resources online. Follow us on Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram for videos and collection highlights. ...
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Oh, snap! Learn to play a Victorian card game
Hi friends! We hope everyone is staying safe indoors and feeling the best they can while the world continues on! To stay entertained, the Golden History Museum and Park's education team has been drawing inspiration from many of our predecessors and the Victorians...
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Movie night with the King of Wild Horses
I've written about Golden's homegrown movie star, Rex, before (he was a Morgan stallion, in case you forgot). But now, you can watch him in his acting debut, "The King of Wild Horses" from the comfort of home. From the June 2019 blog post, here is a little about Rex...
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Culinary School with Museum Director Nathan Richie – Sourdough Rolls and Potato Soup
Culinary School with the Director As a follow-up to our debut Facebook Live episode, here are the promised resources. I hope you'll check out all our other resources online. Follow us on Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram for videos and collection highlights....
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Valuable online resource for Territorial Capital research
Another Legacy Collection Inventory Project treasure The Golden History Museum & Park's collection holds little relating directly to Golden’s time as the Territorial Capital (1862-1867), or so I thought. Since we have been working on the Legacy Collection...
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Artifact inventory yields treasures…and more
Over a year ago, the curatorial department quietly started a part-time pilot project to completely inventory the Legacy Collection at the museum. We define the Legacy Collection as everything existing in the collection when the City commenced museum management in July...
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