History Talks

Join us at the museum for a fun evening of history and learning. The free monthly lecture series explores different topics related to the history of Lyons and the museum's collection of artifacts. Look forward to interesting discussions and guest speakers throughout the summer. 
All talks are given inside the museum and light refreshments are often provided.

Lyons History Day Camp

Aug 5-9, from 9:30am-12:30pm
340 High Street, Lyons Redstone Museum
Grades 1 to 5 (6 to 10 yrs old)
Cost: $50
Contact: Kathleen Spring, Director, lyonshistory@yahoo.com or (303)823-5271
 
Includes history lesson, crafts, personalized scrap book, a skit, and light lunch.
Themes include lessons used in an 1880 one-room school house, pioneer clothing, converting old-time Sears catalogs into your own modern day catalog, and discovering 40 years of artifacts since the museum opened. Camp sponsored by a donation from Lyons Automotive. 

Painting rocks, photo by K. Spring

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2019 Calendar

May

19th - Faded History - 2:00-3:30pm. A free photography workshop on the care and preservation of photographs and how computer technology can be used to restore photographs faded by time. For a $10 donation participants can have one photograph (up to 8x10) scanned and cleaned-up and will receive a jpeg image of the photograph. All proceeds from the event will go towards the purchase of archival materials for the museum.

June

14th- Forty Years/Forty Artifacts Opening Reception and History Talk – 6:00-8:00pm 40th Anniversary celebration and the opening of the exhibit Forty Years/Forty Artifacts. The history of Lyons is told through the stories of forty artifacts highlighted throughout the museum. This exhibit comprised of objects, photographs, and documents shows the depth and breadth of the museum’s collections.

29th - Good Old Day Activities
1:00pm-honoring 2019 pioneer family high school graduates; Class of 1969 50th reunion along with the Classes of 1967, 1968, and 1970; the Graduating classes of the '9s from 1929 to 2019; and Mr./Mrs. Good Old Days.
2:00-5:00pm brief history program followed by open house tours celebrating the 40th Anniversary of museum operation.

July

21st - Lyons Historic District Walking Tour-1:00pm. Event starts with a short presentation about the creation of the district after which guests are invited to wander around town at their leisure. Tours are free, donations appreciated.

August

24th - Lyons Cemetery-Historic Walking Tour-1:00-3:00pm. Learn the history of the Lyons Cemetery and the stories of some of those buried there on this unique tour of Lyons history. Tours are free, donations appreciated.

​September

September 5th- How We Saved Our High School-6:30pm.-LaVern Johnson discusses the campaign from 1948 to 1970 to save Lyons Jr./Sr. High school from being closed and students sent to Longmont. Hear how Lyons residents banded together to fight the national trend of closing small schools, saving Lyons Jr./Sr. High School from being closed, and the subsequent building of a new Lyons Middle/Senior high school for Lyons.
 
19th - Faded History - 7:00-8:30pm. A free photography workshop on the care and preservation of photographs and how computer technology can be used to restore photographs faded by time. For a $10 donation participants can have one photograph (up to 8x10) scanned and cleaned-up and will receive a jpeg image of the photograph. All proceeds from the event will go towards the purchase of archival materials for the museum.

Quarry workers, c. 1900