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Open house at Golden History Park
We’re ready to see you for our next Open House! See sparks fly at the blacksmith shop. Take a lesson at the schoolhouse or make a craft in the historic Reynolds Cabin. Explore the Pearce Cabin and learn how the woodstove works. There’s enough fun at the Golden History Park for the whole family!
Visit on select Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., May through August. Join in hands-on activities, learn about pioneer history from our interpreters, and see special demonstrations. See history in action and transport yourself to the 1800s!
After you’re done at the park, swing by Golden History Museum to see our latest exhibits, open Saturdays until 4:30 p.m. Admission is free to the Park and the Museum.
Varied history opportunities await you
Varied programs are offered throughout the year. Consider a membership to get special program pricing and other benefits like 10% off in the museum gift shop.
Further, lots of fun history opportunities await you in the Golden History Museum & Park online collection. There are about 15,000 items in our collection and you’re sure to find something that interests you about Golden.
Open house at Golden History Park
We’re ready to see you for our next Open House! See sparks fly at the blacksmith shop. Take a lesson at the schoolhouse or make a craft in the historic Reynolds Cabin. Explore the Pearce Cabin and learn how the woodstove works. There’s enough fun at the Golden History Park for the whole family!
Visit on select Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., May through August. Join in hands-on activities, learn about pioneer history from our interpreters, and see special demonstrations. See history in action and transport yourself to the 1800s!
After you’re done at the park, swing by Golden History Museum to see our latest exhibits, open Saturdays until 4:30 p.m. Admission is free to the Park and the Museum.
Varied history opportunities await you
Varied programs are offered throughout the year. Consider a membership to get special program pricing and other benefits like 10% off in the museum gift shop.
Further, lots of fun history opportunities await you in the Golden History Museum & Park online collection. There are about 15,000 items in our collection and you’re sure to find something that interests you about Golden.
Program Overview
This talk will cover topics, methods, and views of LGBTQ people in American history from the Revolutionary period to the Civil War. Along the frontier from the Rio Grande to the Rocky Mountain region, frontiers offered a space which was both highly homosocial and a space for reinvention. Laws, politics, and moral values around gender and sexuality radically shifted by the end of the 19th century. Public views of LGBTQ people became harsher by the end of the 19th and hegemonically oppressive by the middle of the 20th. Yet resistance to such oppression flourished in the arts and private social spaces which fostered the contemporary LGBTQ rights movement.
About Presenter David Duffield
David Duffield is the creator of the Colorado LGBTQ History Project, a board member of the Committee on LGBTQ History, presented at the Western History Association, the American Historical Association, winner of the 2023 Eleanor Gehres Award from Denver Public Library’s Western History Department and the 2019 Denver LGBTQ Commission Community Service Award, and works as a teacher in Denver Public Schools. In his work as a historian with the Center on Colfax for the Colorado LGBTQ History Project, the accomplishments include 100 oral histories, the first tours, lesson plans, 6 exhibits on LGBTQ history, as well as contributions and talks with multiple organizations.
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Open house at Golden History Park
We’re ready to see you for our next Open House! See sparks fly at the blacksmith shop. Take a lesson at the schoolhouse or make a craft in the historic Reynolds Cabin. Explore the Pearce Cabin and learn how the woodstove works. There’s enough fun at the Golden History Park for the whole family!
Visit on select Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., May through August. Join in hands-on activities, learn about pioneer history from our interpreters, and see special demonstrations. See history in action and transport yourself to the 1800s!
After you’re done at the park, swing by Golden History Museum to see our latest exhibits, open Saturdays until 4:30 p.m. Admission is free to the Park and the Museum.
Varied history opportunities await you
Varied programs are offered throughout the year. Consider a membership to get special program pricing and other benefits like 10% off in the museum gift shop.
Further, lots of fun history opportunities await you in the Golden History Museum & Park online collection. There are about 15,000 items in our collection and you’re sure to find something that interests you about Golden.
Open house at Golden History Park
We’re ready to see you for our next Open House! See sparks fly at the blacksmith shop. Take a lesson at the schoolhouse or make a craft in the historic Reynolds Cabin. Explore the Pearce Cabin and learn how the woodstove works. There’s enough fun at the Golden History Park for the whole family!
Visit on select Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., May through August. Join in hands-on activities, learn about pioneer history from our interpreters, and see special demonstrations. See history in action and transport yourself to the 1800s!
After you’re done at the park, swing by Golden History Museum to see our latest exhibits, open Saturdays until 4:30 p.m. Admission is free to the Park and the Museum.
Varied history opportunities await you
Varied programs are offered throughout the year. Consider a membership to get special program pricing and other benefits like 10% off in the museum gift shop.
Further, lots of fun history opportunities await you in the Golden History Museum & Park online collection. There are about 15,000 items in our collection and you’re sure to find something that interests you about Golden.
Open house at Golden History Park
We’re ready to see you for our next Open House! See sparks fly at the blacksmith shop. Take a lesson at the schoolhouse or make a craft in the historic Reynolds Cabin. Explore the Pearce Cabin and learn how the woodstove works. There’s enough fun at the Golden History Park for the whole family!
Visit on select Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., May through August. Join in hands-on activities, learn about pioneer history from our interpreters, and see special demonstrations. See history in action and transport yourself to the 1800s!
After you’re done at the park, swing by Golden History Museum to see our latest exhibits, open Saturdays until 4:30 p.m. Admission is free to the Park and the Museum.
Varied history opportunities await you
Varied programs are offered throughout the year. Consider a membership to get special program pricing and other benefits like 10% off in the museum gift shop.
Further, lots of fun history opportunities await you in the Golden History Museum & Park online collection. There are about 15,000 items in our collection and you’re sure to find something that interests you about Golden.
Open house at Golden History Park
We’re ready to see you for our next Open House! See sparks fly at the blacksmith shop. Take a lesson at the schoolhouse or make a craft in the historic Reynolds Cabin. Explore the Pearce Cabin and learn how the woodstove works. There’s enough fun at the Golden History Park for the whole family!
Visit on select Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., May through August. Join in hands-on activities, learn about pioneer history from our interpreters, and see special demonstrations. See history in action and transport yourself to the 1800s!
After you’re done at the park, swing by Golden History Museum to see our latest exhibits, open Saturdays until 4:30 p.m. Admission is free to the Park and the Museum.
Varied history opportunities await you
Varied programs are offered throughout the year. Consider a membership to get special program pricing and other benefits like 10% off in the museum gift shop.
Further, lots of fun history opportunities await you in the Golden History Museum & Park online collection. There are about 15,000 items in our collection and you’re sure to find something that interests you about Golden.
Open house at Golden History Park
We’re ready to see you for our next Open House! See sparks fly at the blacksmith shop. Take a lesson at the schoolhouse or make a craft in the historic Reynolds Cabin. Explore the Pearce Cabin and learn how the woodstove works. There’s enough fun at the Golden History Park for the whole family!
Visit on select Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., May through August. Join in hands-on activities, learn about pioneer history from our interpreters, and see special demonstrations. See history in action and transport yourself to the 1800s!
After you’re done at the park, swing by Golden History Museum to see our latest exhibits, open Saturdays until 4:30 p.m. Admission is free to the Park and the Museum.
Varied history opportunities await you
Varied programs are offered throughout the year. Consider a membership to get special program pricing and other benefits like 10% off in the museum gift shop.
Further, lots of fun history opportunities await you in the Golden History Museum & Park online collection. There are about 15,000 items in our collection and you’re sure to find something that interests you about Golden.
Snowshoe Making Class
Join expert Aaron “Hutch” Hutchings in making your very own snowshoes. This class will take you step-by-step in making your own set of snowshoes. You will leave class with both the finished product and skills to make more.
Aaron “Hutch” Hutchings is a Colorado native, veteran, and father of four. He was raised in the Rocky Mountains by a real mountain man and hunting guide he called Grandpa. His love for adventure was first sparked by his grandfather’s teaching and stories. This spark was blown into flame in the Boy Scouts and fanned to a full-on bonfire in the Marine Corps. Read more on Hutch’s website.
Photo: Povy Kendal Atchison