Stories from the Anne Grimes Collection of American Folk Music is a treasury of American traditional music and
Ohio’s folklife heritage. Traveling through Ohio in the 1950s as a folksinger and collector of traditional music, Anne Grimes encountered people from many different backgrounds who opened up
their homes to her to share their most precious family heirlooms—their songs. She recorded these treasures for posterity and further preserved them through her lectures and recitals. This
beautiful book presents Grimes's portraits of the major contributors with photographs taken by her husband, James W. Grimes; lyrics and extensive notes on the songs; and a CD sampler that
includes performances by her contributors, most of whom had not been previously recorded. It also contains selections from Bob Gibson, Carl Sandburg, Pete Seeger, Jenny Wells Vincent, as well
as Grimes herself. The Anne Grimes Collection is preserved in the Library of Congress
