this from the American Folklore society:



Folklorist Sandy Ives passed away Sunday evening, August 2, at home in
Maine. Sandy received his PhD in folklore from Indiana University in
1962 and was a professor of folklore at the University of Maine from
1964 to his retirement in 1998. He founded the Maine Folklife Center
and the Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History, both at the
University. Among his major publications were Larry Gorman: The Man
Who Made the Songs (Indiana University Press, 1964), Folksongs and
Their Makers (co-editor; Bowling Green State University Popular Press,
1970), Joe Scott: The Woodsman Songmaker (University of Illinois
Press, 1978), and George Magoon and the Down East Game War (University
of Illinois Press, 1988). In 2000, Ives received a festschrift issue
of the journal he founded, Northeast Folklore, entitled Essays in
Honor of Edward D. "Sandy" Ives and edited by Pauleena MacDougall and
David Taylor (University of Maine Press). He was elected to the
Fellows of the AFS in 1980, and received the Society?s Kenneth
Goldstein Award for Lifetime Academic Leadership in 2003.