The Old Mines Area Historical Society's Annual FETE will occur Sunday, October 2, 2005 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Enjoy a Chicken'n Dumplin Dinner at St. Michael's House or stroll the Fete grounds for food, music, crafts and merriment. Homemade apple butter made on the grounds will be available for sale, and strollers can also enjoy croquignoles (those famous French donuts), French sausage, hot mulled cider, corn-on-the-cob and sweets from the French bakery. The Maplewood School will house a special exhibit, From Gulf to Gulf: Francophonie- Fren North America, featuring music recorded in the 1930's by Joseph Me'dard Carrie're. In stock will be the coffee mugs enumerating Les Noms des Famille de la Region de La Vieille Mine (surnames of the Old Mines area). Again these mugs are sold only the day of the Fete and cannot be ordered by mail. There will be crafters available to demonstrate how they make their wares and they will have some for sale. There will be storyteller enteraining children and adults at the Noad Boyer Log Cabin. Remember to save some time to visit the past - the museum display will tell the history of Old Mines during the 18th and 19th Century with focus on Tiff Mining, and the music and stories of ancestors through sound and pictures. There will be a cake walk for the kids and live music by Dennis Stroughmatt and his Cajun Band, "The Creole Stomp." This year, OMAHS will honor the MADDEN family, represented by Marjorie Bust. Thomas Madded was an American from the East who surveyed the Old Mines Concession and many other land grants in Washington County for the Cre'ole and American settlers. Free admission and free parking with shuttle service to the grounds. The Fete grounds are located in Washington County, Mo. on Highway 21 across from the south entrance to Washington State Park on Highway CC. Everyone will be welcome to attend. OMAHS has available publications which may interest many festival attendees. Jack Duclos' two volume work "The Way We Were," Kent Beaulne and Natalie Villmer's collaboration on "La Guillonee" CD and booklet. The booklet is a series of essays and first hand accounts of the cultural importance of La Guillonee in La Vielle Mine. Helen Valle Crist has published :They was Frenchman's" which traces the Vallee Family from France to Washington County and beyond. These and others will be available at the Publications in the Archives Building.