Lehigh Valley Literary Magazine is participating in the Third Annual Easton Book Festival this coming Saturday, October 23rd and reading poetry and short stories at 3:30pm in the tent outside Book & Puppet Company! Find our table anytime during the day between 10:00am-5pm at Centre Square, where we’ll be selling prints and accepting submissions for book reviews. If you are an author and would like your book reviewed by the magazine and featured on our website and social media outlets, drop it off anytime between 10:00am and 3:00pm. At 3:30pm, we’ll announce which books we’ve selected for review and the new theme(s) for the second issue. Then, Kristin Ivey and Florence Maiellano will read poetry and short stories from the first issue and some new material that has never before been published!

The Easton Book Festival, which began this past Friday, October 16th, runs through Sunday, October 24th, and we’re thrilled to be included among the talented authors on the program at this 8-day festival! To show your support for the literary magazine, stop by our table on Saturday or contact Florence via Email at editor@lvliterature.org for more information.

See you there! It’s FREE to attend!

Prints are here! Lehigh Valley Literary Magazine will be at Apple Days in Historic Bethlehem this weekend on Saturday, September 18th and Sunday, September 19th between the hours of 10am and 5pm selling prints for $15 each at our table located in the Crafters Village at the Burnside Plantation! Besides having fun going through the Hay Bale Maze of life and tasting fine apple foods and drinks, the Editor will be there to raise funds for the literary nonprofit that creates the publishing and prize-winning opportunities for the magazine!

Prints are here! Lehigh Valley Literary Magazine will be at Apple Days in Historic Bethlehem this weekend on Saturday, September 18th and Sunday, September 19th between the hours of 10am and 5pm selling prints for $15 each at our table located in the Crafters Village at the Burnside Plantation! Besides having fun going through the Hay Bale Maze of life and tasting fine apple foods and drinks, the Editor will be there to raise funds for the literary nonprofit that creates the publishing and prize-winning opportunities for the magazine!

Join us and come find our table!

A Message from Our Sponsors:

40th Annual Roasting Ears of Corn Festival

Bring your lawn chairs and blankets and join us for a family-friendly weekend of live Native American drumming and dancing, foods, arts and crafts vendors, and cultural demonstrations.

The Museum of Indian Culture in Allentown, PA invites the public to its 40th Annual Roasting Ears of Corn Festival, Pennsylvania’s oldest Native American Indian Festival, on Saturday & Sunday August 21st and 22nd, 2021. Gates open 10:00 am until 6:00 pm rain or shine. Grand Entrance is at 12:00 noon.

Admission: $10 adults,$5 children 8-17 and seniors over 62, FREE for children under 8.

Enjoy the aroma of fire roasted corn, over 1,000 ears of it roasted!— along with other favorites, such as fry bread with strawberries and cream, Indian Tacos, buffalo burgers and stew, and traditional corn soup. Vendors will sell handmade Navajo and Zuni silver jewelry, Iroquois wampum jewelry and beadwork, Kachina dolls, pottery, leather clothing, moccasins and handbags, hand drums, natural soaps, dreamcatchers, and more.

Entertainment includes drumming by “Youngblood Singers” from New York and “Medicine Horse Singers” from Maryland, Cree hoop dancing by Katrina Fisher, and Intertribal dancing and musical performances by Native Nations Dance Theater from Philadelphia, PA.

This year’s featured performers, traditional Aztec Fire Dancers, the Salinas Family from Mexico City, will perform daily at 11 am and 4 pm. Adorned with painted faces, dramatic headdresses and colorful regalia, the Salinas family will share a sampling of several fire dances, and afterwards, invite audience members to learn a few steps and participate in a friendship dance.

The festival includes activities for people of all ages, including: a children’s hand-on activity area, where they can learn to make Native American style crafts, such as “wampum” bracelets and gourd rattles, and help paint our Roasting Ears of Corn Festival mural. Other activities include face painting, pony rides, life skills demonstrations, Atlatl and Tomahawk throwing, flintknapping, primitive fire making, flute making, and Native Cooking demonstrations by Heart to Hearth, artifact displays by the Indian Artifact Collectors Association of the Northeast, and Cree demonstrator Katrina Fisher presenting her award-winning Plains teepee program.

The Museum of Indian Culture is a nonprofit, member supported organization dedicated to presenting, preserving, and perpetuating the history and cultural heritage of the Northeast Woodland Indians and other American Indian Tribes.

For more information, contact Pat Rivera at 610-797-2121, email info@museumofindianculture.org, or visit us online at museumofindianculture.org.

Join us and come find our table!

A Message from Our Sponsors:

40th Annual Roasting Ears of Corn Festival

Bring your lawn chairs and blankets and join us for a family-friendly weekend of live Native American drumming and dancing, foods, arts and crafts vendors, and cultural demonstrations.

The Museum of Indian Culture in Allentown, PA invites the public to its 40th Annual Roasting Ears of Corn Festival, Pennsylvania’s oldest Native American Indian Festival, on Saturday & Sunday August 21st and 22nd, 2021. Gates open 10:00 am until 6:00 pm rain or shine. Grand Entrance is at 12:00 noon. Admission: $10 adults,$5 children 8-17 and seniors over 62, FREE for children under 8.

Enjoy the aroma of fire roasted corn, over 1,000 ears of it roasted!— along with other favorites, such as fry bread with strawberries and cream, Indian Tacos, buffalo burgers and stew, and traditional corn soup. Vendors will sell handmade Navajo and Zuni silver jewelry, Iroquois wampum jewelry and beadwork, Kachina dolls, pottery, leather clothing, moccasins and handbags, hand drums, natural soaps, dreamcatchers, and more.

Entertainment includes drumming by “Youngblood Singers” from New York and “Medicine Horse Singers” from Maryland, Cree hoop dancing by Katrina Fisher, and Intertribal dancing and musical performances by Native Nations Dance Theater from Philadelphia, PA.

This year’s featured performers, traditional Aztec Fire Dancers, the Salinas Family from Mexico City, will perform daily at 11 am and 4 pm. Adorned with painted faces, dramatic headdresses and colorful regalia, the Salinas family will share a sampling of several fire dances, and afterwards, invite audience members to learn a few steps and participate in a friendship dance.

The festival includes activities for people of all ages: a children’s hand-on activity area, where they can learn to make Native American style crafts, such as “wampum” bracelets and gourd rattles, and help paint our Roasting Ears of Corn Festival mural. Other activities include face painting, pony rides, life skills demonstrations, Atlatl and Tomahawk throwing, flintknapping, primitive fire making, flute making, Native Cooking demonstrations by Heart to Hearth, artifact displays by the Indian Artifact Collectors Association of the Northeast, and Cree demonstrator Katrina Fisher presenting her award-winning Plains teepee program.

The Museum of Indian Culture is a nonprofit, member supported organization dedicated to presenting, preserving, and perpetuating the history and cultural heritage of the Northeast Woodland Indians and other American Indian Tribes.

For more information, contact Pat Rivera at 610-797-2121, email info@museumofindianculture.org, or visit us online at museumofindianculture.org.

Please join the call with Google Meet by clicking on the link below:

https://meet.google.com/dcr-vjow-tow