Open the Door to the West in Golden Colorado

When it comes to Colorado vacations, many people visit this part of the country to reconnect to our country’s western side. Golden, Colorado is the city “Where the West Lives,” and is an ideal place to base a vacation that is focused on cowboys, cowgirls, mountains and horses. Golden is tucked away in the foothills … Read more

Bob LeMassena: Letting Off Steam at Railroad Museum

Bob LeMassena told me his age with a smile and a gleam in his eye, as if letting me in on a long-kept secret. “I’m still young,” he said. Bob is 93. And then he quoted the first line of a Samuel Ullman poem: “Youth is not a time of life, it is a state … Read more

Foothills Art Center: Golden’s Spiritual Gem

While hundreds of people fight traffic and crowds to view works at the Denver Art Museum, art lovers wanting to view purchasable art from Colorado artists can visit the Foothills Art Center in Golden. Although the center is much smaller than many metropolitan galleries, 32,000 visitors a year travel to the western suburb to take … Read more