The Crestview Public Library’s first-ever NERDCon, which will cater to all fans of comics, gaming, anime, sci-fi, fantasy, and everything nerdy in between, is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 27.
Roy and Darlene Estes, who operate a popular free weekly bookstore in storage units near downtown Crestview, share a “retirement dream” of owning and managing a full-time, brick-and-mortar bookstore in the Hub City.
The nonprofit Friends of the Crestview Library group plans to host a book sale on Friday and Saturday at the Crestview Community Center, 1446 Commerce Drive.
One of the most delightful parts about a kayaking trip to and on jungle-like Rocky Creek occurs right before you enter the mouth of this clear, fast-moving river.
Destin historian and author Ronald Collins discussed and signed copies of his new book, “Mystery at Green Pond: The murder of Bud and Nancy Davis by the Blackwell Brothers,” during Saturday’s “Books on the Porch” event at the Crestview History Museum.
Perseverance paid off for historian and author Ronald W. Collins while researching his book “Mystery at Green Pond: The Murder of Bud and Nancy Davis by the Blackwell Brothers.”
Two black-morph female Eastern tiger swallowtail butterflies danced around the flowers of a sweet pepperbush, the sounds of mourning doves, a woodpecker and a red-shouldered hawk echoed through the Blackwater River State Forest, and a deer screamed at me during my recent hike at the Karick Lake Recreation Area.
Visitors to the Crestview Welcome and Adventure Center can check out real marine life such as a spiny lobster and a decorator crab, feel what it’s like to catch a marlin, and color and scan in a drawing of a fish before seeing it swim above an artificial reef depicted on a 6-foot-long interactive touchscreen display table.
As the outside temperature reached 94 degrees shortly before 1 p.m. today, 67-year-old Crestview resident Danny Newton thanked yet another customer for buying a watermelon from the bed of his pickup truck and told her to “Have a blessed day.”
