Yes LEGACY is certainly the right word...i will play Folk Legacy
music on my next radio show August 8th in memory of Sandy, who,
like Alan Lomax, did so much to promote and preseve the music of the folks.

Dictionary...Main Entry: leg·a·cy       noun


1 : a gift by will especially of money or other personal property   
   : bequest   
2 : something transmitted by or received from an ancestor            
    predecessor or from the past as in:
    the legacy of the ancient philosophers


be·quest          noun
Etymology:
    Middle English, irregular from bequethen Date:   14th century

1 : the act of bequeathing 2 : something bequeathed : legacy


    be·queath      transitive verb
Etymology:
    Middle English bequethen, from Old English becwethan,
from be- + cwethan to say — more at quoth Date: before 12th century

1 : to give or leave by will —used especially of personal property 2 : to hand down : transmit

    trans·mit       verb
Etymology:
    Middle English transmitten, from Latin transmittere, from trans- + mittere to send    15th century

transitive verb
1 a: to send or convey from one person or place to another : forward b: to cause or allow to spread: as (1): to convey by or as if by inheritance or heredity : hand down (2): to convey (infection) abroad or to another 2 a (1): to cause (as light or force) to pass or be conveyed through space or a medium (2): to admit the passage of : conduct b: to send out (a signal) either by radio waves or over a wire intransitive verb: to send out a signal either by radio waves or over a wire



*I am thinking of the term "to hand down" (pass along, transmit)
compared with the descriptive phrase of praise "hands down" as in , he wins hands down....and they both apply to Sandy!

I hope someone can print this thread for Caroline and perhaps others
at the memorial....so much loss to bear, I wish for strength for all the family and friends who have so recently had to suffer Kaelan's loss.

Thanks for all that Sandy has done for folk music and musical folks.