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MF 027 Edward D. Ives Collection
Number of
Interviews:
Dates when interviews were conducted: 1956-1999
Time period covered: 1880s - 1990s
Principal interviewers: Edward D. Ives
Finding Aides: transcripts
Access Restrictions: NA 1530
Description: The Edward D. Ives collection consists of two
series: the “Ives Collection,” a collection which retains Ives’s
original numbering system; and a variety of interviews conducted by
Ives which are numbered consistently with other Maine Folklife
Center accessions.
SEE ALSO:
MF 102 Miramichi Folksong Festival Collection
Series I: The “Ives Collection” consists of the tapes and
transcripts of Edward D. “Sandy” Ives’s fieldwork in Maine, New
Hampshire, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island between 1956 and
1970. Most of the accessions include recordings of songs and
information on the people who made and sang them. This material was
gathered in preparation for Ives’s books Larry Gorman: The Man Who
Made the Songs (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1964;
reprinted New York: Arno Press, 1977); Lawrence Doyle: the
Farmer_Poet of Prince Edward Island (Orono: University of Maine
Press, 1971); and Joe Scott: The Woodsman Songmaker (Champaign:
University of Illinois Press, 1978). The series also includes
interviews dealing with all aspects of woods work. The accessions in
this series are numbered Ives 1.1-1.155, 56.1, 57.1-2, 58.1, 59.1-3,
6.1, 62.1-4, 63.1, 64.4-9, 65.1-23, 66.1-12, 67.1-3.68.1-8, 69.1-4;
70.1-10.
Series II: Ives’s other interviews, folklore collections, and
miscellaneous accessions include several that focus on moose poacher
George Magoon (George Magood and the Down East Game War: History,
Folklore, and the Law. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988),
and Wilbur Day (Wilbur Day (1864-1924), Hunter Guide, and Poacher:
An Autobiography. Northeast Folklore 26 (1986). Others are
recordings of various performances; interviews on woodswork; Veazie
history; and songmakers; and material reflecting Ives’s research
interests and his student’s projects. These accessissions are
numbered consistently with the rest of the Maine Folklife Center’s
collections, and include the following accessions:
624 Ives, Edward D. Spring 1971. Maine: Orono (UMO). Tape: 1
hr. No cat, or trans. A program of folksongs given as part of Poetry
Hour in the Memorial Union, Coe Lounge, May 18, 1971. T345
678 Ives, Edward D. Summer 1971. Maine: Wesley. 68 pp. Tape:
1 hr. w/ brief cat. & trans. Interview with Harold Day,
discussing old times around Wesley; stories of George Magoon and
Wilbur Day, poachers. T385 - T386
679 Ives, Edward D. July 1971. Maine: Machias. 72 pp. Tape: 2
hrs. w/ trans. Interview with Harold Stuart about life in the
lumberwoods along the Union and Machias Rivers; work in lumber
mills; stories about George Magoon, and Wilbur Day, poachers, and
Calvin Graves. T386 - T388
680 Ives, Edward D. July 1971. Maine: Hermon, Great Pond,
Amherst. 90 pp. Tape: 2 hrs. w/ trans. Interview with Merle
Richardson, 85, formerly of Great Pond, about his life there as
a guide, woodsman, and river driver. T388 - T390
681 Ives, Edward D. July 1971. Maine: Machias. 70 pp. Tape: 2
hrs. w/ trans. Interview with William Hudson about woodswork.
T390 - T391
692 Ives, Edward D. August 1972. Maine: Danforth. 46 pp.
Tape: 1 1/4 hrs. w/ trans. Interview with Tom Sprague: tall
tales, his life as a forest service warden; woods work. T405 -
T406
708 Ives, Edward D. May 1972. Maine: Veazie. 7 pp. Tape: 1/4
hr. w/ trans. Interview with two students, Scott MacDonald
and John Hedlund, who tell of dreams they had and how reports
of these dreams by others made them into a ghost story. T433
743 Ives, Edward D. Fall 1972. Maine: Orrington. 10 pp. Tape:
3 hrs. w/ brief cat. Interviews with Thomas McLean, Sr., 82,
about his forty years in the lumber and pulp woods working for the
Great Northern Paper Company. T560 - T562
794 Ives, Edward D. Nov. 1973. Maine: Stonington. 27 pp.
Tape: 1 hr. w/ brief cat. Program of country western music held for
benefit of local Headstart Program, held at Stonington High School;
Headstart Newsletter, #3. T700 - T703
817 Ives, Edward D. Spring 1974. Maine: Orono (UMO). 15 pp.
Tape: 4 hrs. w/ brief index. Program of songs and tales performed by
Wilmot MacDonald of Glenwood, New Brunswick. T740 - T743
834 Ives, Edward D. July 1974. Maine: Alexander. 25 pp. Tape:
1/2 hr. w/ brief cat. & partial trans. Interviews with Claude
Stewart and Arlene Pollard about life and events around
Alexander, Maine, in the early 20th century. T754
835 Ives, Edward D. July 1974. Maine: Crawford. 68 pp. Tape:
1 hr. w/ brief cat. & trans. Interview with Victor Archer
about hunting and guiding. T755 - T756
861 Roche, Rose B. 1973. Maine: Mexico. 19 pp. ms. Letters
from Rose Roche to E. D. Ives and typed copies of songs
learned by her father, John J. Roche, of Prince Edward Island.
969 Ives, Edward D. Summer 1975. Maine: Veazie. 79 pp. Tape:
2 hrs. w/ brief cat & trans. Interview with Addie Weed, age
92, about life history and history of her home and property in
Veazie. T968 - T969
987 Ives, Edward D. November 1974. Maine: Bryant Pond. 28 pp.
Tape: 1/2 hr. w/ brief cat. & trans. Interview with Guy Swan
about the Grand Trunk railroad wreck of January 18, 1901 in Bethel,
Maine. P568 - P579 / T987
988 Ives, Edward D. November 1974. Maine: South Paris. 35 pp.
Tape: 3/4 hr. w/ brief cat. & trans. Interview with Edward C.
Peverley about the Grand Trunk Wreck of Jan. 18, 1901;
biographical material. T988
989 Ives, Edward D. November 1974. Maine: Yarmouth. 61 pp.
Tape: 1 1/2 hrs. w/ brief cat. & trans. Interview with Everett
Smith about the Grand Trunk Wreck of Jan. 18, 1901; experiences
as a woodsman. T989
1059 Ives, Edward D. Spring 1976. Maine: Machias. 8 pp. Tape:
1 1/4 hrs. w/ brief cat. Interview with Herbert Hanscom, Sr.
of Marshfield, Maine about life on the river drives and in the
woods, hunting, poaching, George Magoon, Wilbur Day, poachers.
T1070
1107 Sullivan, Edward. 1975 - 1977. Maine: Veazie. 19 pp.
Letters from Edward Sullivan to E. D. Ives about life in
Veazie and stories he had written about the area; photo of Lawrence
(Larry) Conners, log driver and lumberman, P936
1118 Ives, Edward D. August 1977. Maine: Lake Onawa. 4 pp.
Tape: 1/4 hr. No cat, or trans. Interview with Rev. Alfred G.
Hempstead about his recollections of Fannie Hardy Eckstorm; one
woods story. T1166
1198 Ives, Edward D. Spring 1978. Maine: Veazie. 33 pp. Tape:
2 hrs. w/ cat. Interview with Addie Weed about life in Veazie,
history of the Weed property, and remembrances of her youth.
T1258, T1413
1217 Ives, Edward D. January 1979. Maine: Pittsfield. 86 pp.
Tape: 1 hr. w/ cat. Songs and other writings of Clermont Spencer,
44. Includes letters from him and his Adult Education teachers in
Waterville, copies of his songs, and three copies of Issues,
a magazine published by adult education course. T1277
1279 Ives, Edward D. July 1979. Maine: Bar Harbor. 13 pp.
Tape: 3/4 hr. w/ cat. Interview with Lewis Lund, Jr. about
George Magoon and Wilbur Day, poachers. T1346
1280 Ives, Edward D. July 1979. New Brunswick: Newcastle. 33
pp. Tape: 6 hrs. w/ cat. Wilmot MacDonald singing songs and
telling stories for the Franco-American Canadian Studies class,
Summer 1979. T1347 - T1352
1281 Ives, Edward D. July 1979. New Brunswick: Glenwood. 6
pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/ brief cat. Interview with Archie and Ida
MacDonald, who play tunes on the organ and violin. T1353
1282 Ives, Edward D. July 1979. New Brunswick: Black River
Bridge. 5 pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/ brief cat. Interview with Allan and
Annie MacDonald. Annie plays the organ and Allan plays the
fiddle, both sing songs. T1354
1283 Ives, Edward D. July 1979. Maine: Alexander, Pleasant
Lake. 13 pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/ cat. Interview with Orris McKeown
about his grandfather, George Magoon, and about Wilbur Day. T1328
1284 Ives, Edward D. August 1979. Maine: Crawford. 15 pp.
Tape: 1 hr. w/ cat. Interview with Adin McKeown about his
grandfather, George Magoon. T1355
1285 Ives, Edward D. August 1979. Maine: Jacksonville. 18 pp.
Tape: 2 hrs. w/ cat. Interview with Frank S. Dowling, 90,
about George Magoon and Wilbur Day; labor conditions along the
Machias River; getting old; his own life and childhood. T1356
1289 Ives, Edward D. Fall 1979. Maine: Pittsfield. 17 pp.
Tape: 1 hr. w/ brief cat. Interview with Clermont Spencer who
sings original songs, tells some stories and talks about songmaking;
words of 4 songs written by "Clum" Spencer. See also NA 1217.
T1364 - T1365
1296 Ives, Edward D. Spring 1977. Maine: Bangor. 11 pp. Tape:
2 hrs. w/ brief cat. Recording of two Curly O’Brien television shows
done as a memorial for Hal Lone Pine (aka the Lone Pine
Mountaineer), a nationally known country music performer (née Harold
Breau) from Old Town, Maine. Hal Lone Pine died in March, 1977.
T1385 - T1386
1306 Ives, Edward D. Spring 1980. Maine: Sherman Mills. 14
pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/ cat. Interview with Mrs. Hartley Anderson
about her father, Earl Stubbs, who was the subject of the song "The
Teamster in Jack MacDonald’s Crew." T1412
1366 Ives, Edward D. Summer 1980. Maine: Argyle. 11 pp. Tape:
Video, 1 1/2 hrs. w/ brief cat. Video recording of Ernest Kennedy
preparing and cooking bean hole beans for family reunion. V12,
V13, V14
1490 Ives, Edward D. Spring 1981. Maine: Alexander. 13 pp.
Tape: 3/4 hrs. w/ cat. Interview with John Dudley about his
experiences as a judge in Washington County; a George Magoon story.
T1595
1491 Ives, Edward D. Spring 1981. Maine: Wesley. 21 pp. Tape:
1 hr. w/ cat. Interview with John and Alice Bacon about
Wilbur Day and his wife, Susie. P727 / T1595
1517 Ives, Edward D. Summer 1981. Maine: Crawford, Wesley,
Vienna. 6 pp. Descriptions of 37 slides of George Magoon’s grave;
objects in possession of John and Alice Bacon; tombstones in
Franklin Cemetery, North Vienna, Maine. See S1134 - S1170
1530 Ives, Edward D. 1957. Maine: N. H.; New Brunswick;
Prince Edward Island. 128 pp. ms. Journals and field notes made
during the period January 30, 1957 through September 2, 1957 by E.D.
Ives. RESTRICTED.
1588 Ives, Edward D. Fall 1982. New Brunswick: Renous. 18 pp.
Tape: 1/2 hr. w/ cat. Interview with Edith Whalen and Vada
McEvoy about their remembrances of Joe Smith, songmaker.
T1682
1589 Ives, Edward D. Fall 1982. New Brunswick: Gray Rapids.
17 pp. Tape: 3/4 hr. w/ cat. Interview with Eldon Mountain,
94, about Joe Smith & Frank O’Hara, songmakers. Also discusses river
driving, woods work, building scows. T1683
1590 Ives, Edward D. Fall 1982. New Brunswick: Gray Rapids.
19 pp. Tape: 1/2 hr. w/ trans. Material dictated by E. D. Ives from
notes and accounts kept by Norma Mountain about Joe Smith, including
poems and songs. P5331 - P5333, T1684
1591 Ives, Edward D. Fall 1982. New Brunswick: St. Stephen. 8
pp. Tape: 1/4 hr. w/ cat. Interview with Mrs. John Hawthorne
about her grandfather, Joe Smith; descriptions of photos, P5253 -
P5261, by E. D. Ives. T1683
1637 Ives, Edward D. Winter 1983. Maine: Brewer. 31 pp. Tape:
1 1/2 hrs. w/ cat. Interview with Edwin Houston, one of the
last and best of the rodmakers for F.E. Thomas Co. of Bangor, Maine,
about his life and his rodmaking skills; floor plan of F.E. Thomas
Co. T1743 - T1747 [cassette original = C1784]
1723 Ives, Edward D. Fall 1983. Maine: Ellsworth. 9 pp. Tape:
1 hr. w/ partial cat. Interview with William S. Silsby, Sr.
about his memories of George Magoon and family, and Wilbur Day.
T1842
1928 Ives, Edward D. Machais Project: 1986. Maine: Machias.
32 pp. Tape: 1/2 hr. w/ trans. Victor Archer (deceased)
describes working in the woods and river driving along the Machias.
T1942
1964 Ives, Edward D. Fall 1983. Maine: Orono. 4 pp. Tape: 1/2
hr. Wyman Gerry talks about a variety of subjects including his
grandfather, who was a sea captain and river pilot; collecting old
photographs for the Brewer Public Library; collecting copies of
documents relating to the First Congregational Church of Brewer.
Also speaks of shipbuilding, old mills and Fanny Hardy Eckstorm.
T1954
1991 Ives, Edward D. Summer 1987. New Brunswick: Gray Rapids
(Blackville). 37 pp. Tape: 1 hr. Norma (Mrs. Ralph) Mountain
tells two long Märchen that she remembers hearing from her
grandfather, Alec Underhill. She also tells several memorates of
supernatural experiences. Included are manuscript and typescript
copies of the two Märchen: type AT313 and AT506. P6455 - P6477,
P6492 - P6504 / T1957
2014 Ives, Edward D. (FO) Spring 1966, 1967. Maine: Orono.
114 pp. Materials gathered from students in E.D. Ives' Folklore
classes in 1966 and 1977. Students were given questionnaires to
determine how familiar they were with the belief among non-Jews that
Jews bury their dead standing up.
2036 Ives, Edward D. Summer 1988. Maine: Fort Kent. 5 pp.
Tapes: 2 3/4 hrs. w/ brief cat. Interview with Jim Connors,
age 80, about his experiences as guide, woodsman and mechanic. He
also recites some of his poetry as well as selections from Yeats,
Kipling and others. C515, C516
2147 Ives, Edward (Sandy) D. Fall 1990. Maine: Orono. Trans.
only. 47 pp. A trapper's diary (Photocopy), running from April 10,
1940 through May 1, 1941. Kept in a composition scribbler 7" by 8
1/2" and labeled "Property of F.M. Lawler". Location seems to be
around Topsfield, mentions Tomah Stream, Dog Brook and Jim Brown
Brook.
2300 Ives, Edward D. 1957-1958. Canada: Prince Edward Island.
83 pp. Letters, clippings, and miscellaneous notes on “The Burning
Ship of Northumberland Strait,” which were the basis of Edward
Ives’s article in Midwest Folklore. The article is also
included.
2301 Ives, Edward D. April 1987 thru March 1992. Maine and
Prince Edward Island. Video: 1 w/ no transcript. 2pp. A VHS dubbing
from three original videos featuring Edward "Sandy" Ives in various
television broadcasts. These broadcasts include Bud Leavitts, "Woods
and Waters", April 1987; at the University of Prince Edward Island
Commencement where he receives an honorary doctorate and gives a
speech, and; a CBC-compass item from March 1992 features Edward Ives
and Mary and John Cousins. In these interviews Edward Ives discusses
stories, legends and songs he has collected. V57
2324 Ives, Edward. June 1992. Scotland: Edinburgh. 16pp.
Tape: 1 w/ transcript. Interview with Hamish Henderson, one
of the founders of the School of Scottish Studies. Topics include
notes on singers Willie Mathieson, John Strachan, and Tom Scott,
"The Horseman’s World." Also, "The People’s Festival Ceilidlis."
C1155
2342 Ives, Edward D. December 1966. Maine: Veazie. 3pp. Tape:
1 w/ brief catalog. Tape of Sarah Ives, age 5, telling the
"Three Little Pigs" and "Goldilocks", followed by a recording of
Christmas morning opening presents, etc. Nathanial Ives, age
9, sings "Rudolph" at the Ives home. C1361
2395 Ives, Edward D. July 1995. Maine: Bangor. 3pp.
Photographs: 19 w/ no transcript. Photographs of labor memorials in
Bangor, Maine, including the Luther Peirce "Last Drive" statue and
three tombstones in Mt. Hope Cemetery, Bangor, Maine. P7755 -
P7757
2432 Ives, Edward (Sandy). September 1996. Canada:
Campbelltown, P.E.I. 11pp. Tape: 1 w/ transcript. Interview with
Mary Cousins with words to song "O’Halloran Road", information
on sightings of the Burning Ship, and autobiolographical material.
C1517
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