Writings

Title: Writings
Dates of Material:
1964-2023, predominant 1964-2014
Extent:
41 cm of textual records
22 photographs: b&w
2 photographs : col.
Scope and content

Series includes professional writings, including curriculum vitae, student essays, published articles, unpublished interviews (including the former cashier of the Debord Circus), sections of manuscript for book, The Pleasures of Time: Two Men, A Life, and photographs relating to unpublished articles.

NOTE(S)
Arrangement

Series has been arranged by archivist chronologically.

Original copy of article, “Democratizing the Arts: France in an Era of Austerity”, is located in the series of Writings and other material regarding Khoa Pham.

Language of material

Includes poems written in French

Access restrictions

No restrictions

Subjects

Circuses

BOX FILE TITLE YEAR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Box 1
11 Stephen Harold Riggins Ph.D Curriculum vitae2004
14 “Scrapbook Magic” articles [2003?]
15 Articles by Stephen Riggins1986, 1991

Riggins, Stephen H. and Khoa Pham. "Democratizing the Arts: France in an Era of Austerity." Queen's Quarterly 93, no. 1 (Spring 1986): 149-161.

Riggins, Stephen Harold. "If Work Made People Rich: An Oral History of General Farming, 1905-1925." Midwestern Folklore: Journal of the Hoosier Folklore Society 17, no. 2 (Fall 1991): 73-109.

117 Draft section of The Pleasures of TimeNovember 12, 1998

Annotated typescript draft.

119 Omitted chapters and interview with Khoa Pham for The Pleasures of Time1998, 2001
128Photographs of the Toronto apartment of "Tim Fastco"[1990?]

Fourteen (14) b&w photographs, by professional photographer Susan Ashukian, of the interior of the apartment of Tony Formo to be used for an article by Stephen Riggins on the symbolism of vernacular interior decoration. 

(Photos P1-14)
2007.08
2007.08, Box 1
14 Draft section of The Pleasures of Time
15Draft sections of The Pleasures of Time (includes two letters by Paul Bouissac, 1975, 1984)1975, 1984
16Transcript of 2004 interview with Ron Weihs re the Debord Circus2007
17Photographs by Bill Whorrall

Photographs of small town and rural scenes in Indiana.

(Photos P1-6)
2009.01
2009.01, Box 1
18 “Stephen Riggins’ Life the First Ten Years”2008
2012.08
2012.08, Box 1
15Undergraduate essays (Indiana University) 1965-1966
16Graduate essays (University of Toronto) 1971-1975
17Date calendar for year at Indiana University 1964-1965
18'Two texts" poems written in French with Paul Bouissac 2013
2020.10
2020.10, Box 3
37Indiana University1968-1971

Includes an essay that was reconstructed in 2007.

2020.10, Box 4
45Draft of MA Thesis1971

Thesis title: A Survey of the Audiences for Live and Recorded Art Music

Riggins does not believe that there is a surviving copy of the completed thesis.

2023.12
2023.12, Box 4
49Letters Volume One (Draft)October 2023

Part One: 1946-1983

Pre-publication series draft of Stephen Riggins’ newest work, Life in Letters and Anecdotes, to be published by Snails on Stilts Press. The work is a compilation of letters, essays and anecdotes about the life of Stephen Riggins and Paul Bouissac, Indiana University students in the 1960s, and American and Canadian gay history.

410Letters Volume Two (Draft)October 2023

Part Two: 1984-2014

Pre-publication series draft of Stephen Riggins’ newest work, Life in Letters and Anecdotes, to be published by Snails on Stilts Press. The work is a compilation of letters, essays and anecdotes about Stephen Riggins and Paul Bouissac, Memorial University Department of Sociology, Indiana University students in the 1960s, and American and Canadian gay history.

2023.12, Box 5
51Letters Volume Three (Draft)October 2023

Part Three: 2015-2023

Pre-publication series draft of Stephen Riggins’ newest work, Life in Letters and Anecdotes, to be published by Snails on Stilts Press. The work is a compilation of letters, essays and anecdotes about Stephen Riggins and Paul Bouissac, Memorial University Department of Sociology, Indiana University students in the 1960s, and American and Canadian gay history.

52Poetry and Willpower: A Report on Self-defeating Behavior [draft]October 2023

Draft of a work by Stephen Riggins about the life and career of poet Richard Brooks Hendrickson, and a general examination of the lives of gay men in early 20th c. USA.

53Writings by Stephen Harold Riggins1983, 1986, 2014, 2021-2022

Includes:

  • Crisp Bits of News from the County Seat, 1920-1934: Journalism by Carlos McCarty of Shoals, Indiana, edited by SR, 2021. Self-published, Snails on Stilts Press
  • Twigs of Thyme: Indiana, Newfoundland, Ontario, 2022. A copy of Stephen Riggins’ family and personal history, self-published, Snails on Stilts Press
  • Stephen Riggins’ review of Postnational Memory, Peace and War: Making Pasts beyond Borders by Nigel Routledge (2019) in Peace Magazine, January/March, 38 (1), 2022.
  • Stephen Riggins’ essay “Continuities/Discontinuities”, Jul 2021
  • An article by Stephen Riggins on Dutch-Canadian poet Hendrik Poesiat. Written while Riggins was at Laurentian University.
  • “Pianese”, Stephen Riggins’ essay on playing the piano, Sep 2014
  • Stephen Riggins’ review of Soviet Émigré Artists by Marilyn Rueschemeyer, Igor Golomshtok and Janet Kennedy. Written while Riggins was at University of Alberta.
  • A write-up on the release of SR’s book Country Lilacs, 1983
  • Stephen Riggins' CV, Jan 1986
54Proposals – Ph.D.1973-1974

   

55Photographs of Stephen Riggins[n.d.]

Contains 4 portrait photographs of Stephen Riggins. According to a note, these photographs were mentioned in his story “Still Life Adrift”, published in Pandemic Ponderings: Writing through a Pandemic, Fifteen Minutes at a Time, (2020).

(Photos P25-28)