Writings

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.

Annotated typescript draft.

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. 

Photographs of small town and rural scenes in Indiana.

Includes an essay that was reconstructed in 2007.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 20^th c. USA.

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

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).