Note: Last week’s featured image was posted on Thursday. Starting this week, I will try to post this every Saturday
I don’t do Black Friday. Fighting crowds for stuff I don’t need is not the epilogue I could use for a week of house cleaning, food shopping & preparations and feasting. Most years, it ends on a high note and dashing it in a mad rush I may not come out of alive seems rather perverse to me.
So this year, we took my wife Laura’s uncle, who came in from out of town, to Central City, just a bit down Highway 119 from our house. Being a fellow history buff, he wanted to see what Central City had to offer for museums and historic sites. One place we visited was the Gilpin County Historical Museum, a few hundred feet east of the old county courthouse. Upstairs from the tiny museum was the much larger gallery of the Gilpin County Arts Association. The space is a combination of the former residence of legendary Sheriff William Z Cozens, the original Gilpin County Courthouse at Washington Hall, and the first jail. The GCAA has operated an art gallery at this location continuously since 1947. You can find out more at the Gilpin County Arts Association.
The image of the week is a permanent water sculpture created by the late local artist Angelo di Benedetto. It utilizes the shape of the mountainside the building is adapted to for its form. If you’re ever in Central City between the hours of 10am-6pm most days, drop in at Washington Hall at 117 Eureka St. Even if the artwork is not your thing, the preserved early settlement architecture is itself worth a visit.
