Inaugural Issue Release @ The 40th Annual Roasting Ears of Corn Festival

Written By Melissa DiMaiella

Lehigh Valley Literary Magazine will be attending The 40th Annual Roasting Ears of Corn Festival in Allentown, Pennsylvania on Saturday and Sunday, August 21st and 22nd between 10am and 6pm! Join us for the celebration and find our table!

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The 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 non-profit, 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 https://www.museumofindianculture.org/

(The photograph of Anna Silent Thunder featured in this post was provided by The Museum of Indian Culture.)

Melissa DiMaiella

Melissa is the Founder and Editor of Lehigh Valley Literary Magazine. As a writer and artist who calls the Lehigh Valley her home, she established the magazine to create publishing and prize-winning opportunities for literature and art in her community. She has worked in education, administration, and marketing and has earned her M.A. in international education at New York University and a B.A. in English and studio art from Muhlenberg College in Allentown after studying abroad in Europe. She believes that the arts are intrinsic to culture, lead to better understanding and higher achievement in all fields, and are essential for thriving in our world. She is a faithful mom and friend, likes music, traveling, and going for walks, is an avid reader, and appreciates anyone who will challenge her to a game of chess.

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