There’s a place in Crestview where you can watch fencing demos, flip crêpes, sample éclairs and learn about the city’s relationship with Noirmoutier, all in the air-conditioned comfort of a century-old historic residence and its museum.

While one exhibitor at the Laurel Hill Arts & Heritage Festival sets out a tempting array of homemade jams and jellies, another tunes up his acoustic guitar for a performance while a third loads blank cartridges into a vintage World War II rifle.

You know your dogger is just aching to visit a museum. Luckily, the Crestview History Museum will welcome families and individuals and their pooches to “Puppy Love on the Porch” from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 14.

Teatime is coming back to the historic Bush House on Saturday, Jan. 24 and will make a perfect chilly winter day’s respite.

The music of Christmas evokes many memories of joyful holiday gatherings, surprises under the tree, candles in the windows, and the songs of this special time of year playing in the living room.

The historic Bush House is decorated in its festive Christmas finery, Christmas music fills the air, and soon, a lively farmers’ and crafters’ market will bustle on the lawn, and lavishly costumed storybook characters will flit around the rooms, pausing for photos with visitors.

Crestview History Museum volunteers are getting out their lederhosen and dirndls to celebrate Oktoberfest, which will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the 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.”

The morning sun had just started peeking over the trees in Gene Clary Park as more than 30 residents representing at least five Laurel Hill area churches gathered to celebrate the Risen Lord during the small north county community’s traditional Easter Sunrise Service.

Retired Lt. Col. William Hogan will speak at this year’s “Race to the Rhein” living history weekend on Saturday.