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Double-feature: celebrating
our 20th anniversary with separate fiction and spoken word issues.
Sensations Magazine
Issue 41,
Spring/Summer 2007: Released June 2007
Sensations Magazine
Issue 42, Fall/Winter 2007:
Released Jan 2008 |
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2007
Celebrating our 20th anniversary in style
with the publication of a record six major projects in
one year (June 2007 to May 2008): two Sensations Magazine
anniversary issues, one Alternative Motifs Silver Anniversary
Issue, and three distinct Lafayette Township Heritage Research
Series programs and public shows.
Yes, 2007 was an intense year - from
celebrating the 20th anniversary of Sensations Magazine with
two anniversary issues . . .
On December 10, 2007, Sensations Magazine reached its 20th
anniversary of independent small press publishing: a landmark
achievement for "the little literary magazine that could" (and did).
 | Issue 41, Spring/Summer 2007, "The 20th
Anniversary Fiction Issue," offered 20 new stories by top-notch
writers - and the final opportunity for writers to submit stories
up to 30 pages double-spaced |
| Issue 42, Fall/Winter 2007, "The 20th
Anniversary Spoken Word Issue," offered the top poems selected
from our 20-year history of videotaped poetry readings, along with
the winners of a 20th anniversary poetry contest |
| From 2007 through 2010, Sensations Magazine
would release two print publications per year |
| Fiction writers published in Spring/Summer
2007: Germain Bienvenu, Philip T. Carter, Andria Nacina
Cole, Barrie Creedon, William Eisner, James Vance Elliott, Denise
LaNeve, Arnold L. Miller, Vicki Moss, Tana Polansky Maurer,
Richard Pruitt, Lynn Veach Sadler, Ken Sieben, Paul Siefert,
Dorian Tenore, and Fernando Veranes |
| Poets published in Fall/Winter 2007: TO
BE ADDED |
. . . to presenting intensive
microfilm research on the history of Lafayette, NJ, our new home
base for operations, as a free service to the public, via the
three-part Lafayette Township Heritage Research Series . . .
| September 2007 - Part 1 of 3 celebrates the
250th anniversary of the birth of the Marquis de Lafayette
(including the text of David Messineo's speech at Municipal Hall)
and part of the cultural history of Lafayette Township (the
history of five Lafayette bands, from 1847 to 1906, reconstructed
through intensive microfilm and published on acid-free paper for
archival permanence). |
| December 2007 - Part 2 of 3 celebrates the
125th anniversary of Armstrong's Hall, the first rentable
performance hall in Lafayette. The program includes the text
of David Messineo's speech "Giving an Entertainment - The History
of Armstrong's Hall," all the known performances at Armstrong's
Hall from 1882 to 1920, and all the known performances at the
second rentable hall in Lafayette, the Junior Order of United
American Mechanics Hall on Route 15, up to 1928, as reconstructed
through intensive microfilm research and published on acid-free
paper for archival permanence. |
| Spring 2008 - Part 3 of 3 celebrates the 175th
anniversary of the opening of the Lafayette Baptist Church
building on Route 15, and explores the contributions of three
historic Lafayette churches toward town social life - Baptist,
Methodist-Episcopal (M.E.), and Presbyterian - as reconstructed
through intensive microfilm research and published on acid-free
paper for archival permanence. |
. . . to creation of the Silver
Anniversary Issue of Alternative Motifs, the Fordham
University publication created by David Messineo that preceded
Sensations Magazine . . .
 
(Above) The front and back covers of Alternative Motifs
Issue 37, Fall 2006, completed and distributed in November 2007
after a year of research. Click on the icons above for a
full-page display of each.
. . . to getting the news out about The
Six Centuries Club of America, and the full focus on American
history by Sensations Magazine writers during the years
2008-2010 . . .
(Above, L-R) Moira Bailis and Okey Chenowith feature David
Messineo on their monthly poetry radio show at Fairleigh Dickinson
University, 4th Sunday of the month.
. . . to a sensational 20th anniversary reunion
for Sensations Magazine.
(Above) The former Lafayette Presbyterian Church Parsonage
(1857-1881) and former Lafayette Grange meeting space (1930s) takes
a new life in 2007, as The Six Centuries Club Meeting Room.
(INSERT PHOTO IN 2008)
(Above, L-R) Performers at the 20th anniversary Sensations
Magazine reunion
For photographs and details about the
three free public programs offered in Lafayette, NJ, when the three-part
research series was presented, click the "2007-08 Lafayette"
button, also in this section under the "Remember" button.
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