BROKEN BOW, Okla.—This weekend offers the unique experience of an autumn festival with folk musicians and turn-of-the-century arts and crafts.

Starting today and running through Sunday, the 15th annual Beavers Bend Folk Festival & Craft Show brings accomplished folk artists and dozens of exhibitors and vendors to Beavers Bend Resort Park and the Forest Heritage Center. The festival annually entertains about 14,000 visitors.

“We’re expecting a good crowd,” said Doug Zook, director of the Forest Heritage Center. “The fall foliage is expected to be peaking ... and we have had a flood of telephone calls. We have several unique vendors this year.”

One of those vendors will give an 18th century woodworking demonstration using tools from prehistoric times onward.

“And he’s going to let the public use everything that he’s demonstrating. That’s a new addition this year,” said Zook.

Another new artist will demonstrate pressed flower and weed arrangements. Visitors will get to try their hand at that, too.

“At the folk festival everything is handmade,” Zook said. “We jury-select all the crafters and the demonstrators. That’s really what makes the festival unique.”

The hand-crafted vendors and exhibitors include candlemakers, woodturners, herbalists, knife makers, quilters and soap makers.

Four folk acts bring the fiddlin’ and banjo pickin’ to the festival all three days.

The Herbin’ League specializes in a cappella folk, having played the festival for nine years. Celtic musicians Father, Son & Friends are aptly named and dressed in kilts. Traditional American musicians and duo Jim & Kim Lunsford hail from the Ozarks. And Clarke Buehling and the Skirtlifters, players of diverse music (rags, polkas, jigs, reels and riverboat music), make a first appearance at the festival.

Mountain dulcimer workshops will be held, and musicians are urged to bring their own dulcimer.

Meanwhile, youngsters have plenty to keep them entertained: a petting zoo, storytellers and puppet shows. A fall foliage train ride embarks from the Beavers Bend Depot.

And, when you’re famished, kettle corn, corn dogs, funnel cake, smoked turkey legs and wraps, pork-o-bobs, patty melts, burgers, and tacos (chicken, cowboy and Indian) are all on tap.

For a natural time this weekend, the autumn-flavored festival should be a treat.

(Admission is free. Show hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday. Beavers Bend Resort Park is 7 miles north of Broken Bow on U.S. Highway 259A. More info: 580-494-6479 or www.beaversbend.com.)