Tombstones: Reading List

  • “Investigating the Tree-stump Tombstone in Indiana.” In American Material Culture and Folklife: A Prologue and Dialogue. Ed. Simon J.Bronner. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1992.
  • “Let the Tombstones Speak.” Indiana University Alumni Magazine (May-June 1989): 22-28.
  • “Notes on the Production of Rustic Monuments in the Limestone Belt of Indiana.” Markers: Annual Journal of the Association of Gravestone Studies 7 (1990): 172-193.
  • “The Sincerest Form of Flattery: Originals and Imitations in Rustic Monuments.” In Viewpoints on Folklife: Looking at the Overlooked. Ann Arbor: U.M.I. Research Press, 1983, 145-161.
  • “Tombstones in Scotland and Indiana.” Folk Life: Journal of Ethnological Studies 23 (1984): 97- 104.
  • “Tools on Tombstones: Some Indiana Examples.” Pioneer America 10: 1 (1978): 107-111. Reprinted in Viewpoints on Folklife: Looking at the Overlooked. Ann Arbor: U.M.I. Research Press, 1983, 133-144.
  • “Traditional Tools as Symbols: Some Examples from Indiana Tombstones.” Pioneer America: Journal of Historic American Material Culture 12: 1 (1980), 54-63.
  • Ridlen, Suzanne S. Tree-Stump Tombstones: A Field Guide to Rustic Funerary Art in Indiana. Kokomo, Indiana: Old Richardville Publications, 1999.