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v List of Illustrations ................................ vii Foreword: A Personal Tribute to Anne Grimes. . . . . . . . . . 0ix Preface .......................................... xi Introduction ...................................... 1 1 Frank Allen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 2 Reuben Allen ................................. 21 3 Bertha Bacon ................................. 24 4 Sarah Basham and Bertha Basham Wright ......... 27 5 John W. Beattie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 6 Henry Lawrence Beecher ....................... 34 7 John M. Bodiker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 8 Paul Bogatay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 9 Dolleah Church ............................... 51 10 Governor James M. Cox ........................ 54 11 Walter W. Dixon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 12 Dulcerine Players of Southeastern Ohio: Bob White, . . . . Ken Ward, Lilly McGhee Ward Swick, Charles Ralston. . 58 13 Arthur Byrd Fields ............................. 63 14 Ella Strawser Flack ............................ 65 15 Blanche Wilson Fullen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 16 Bob Gibson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 17 A. B. Graham ................................. 75 18 Brodie Franklin Halley ......................... 77 19 Perry Harper ................................. 80 20 Amanda Styers Hook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 21 Arthur Emerson Kieffer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 22 Donald Langstaff .............................. 91 23 Fanny Hagerman Laylin ........................ 95 24 Lottie Leas ................................... 102 25 Bascom Lamar Lunsford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 26 W. E. Lunsford and the John H. Lunsford Dulcimer. . 108 27 Marcus and Wade Martin and the Martin Dulcimers . 110 28 Jane Jones McNerlin and the . . . . McNerlin Family Dulcimers ..................... 112 29 The National Folk Festival at St. Louis: . . . . May Kennedy McCord, Jenny Wells Vincent, Pete Seeger . 114 30 Neva Randolph................................. 118 31 Eli “Babe” Reno ................................ 120 32 Branch Rickey ................................. 123 33 Carl Sandburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 34 Arthur D. Tyler and the Tyler Dulcimer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 35 William T. Utter and Scheitholts from Licking County . . . . 132 36 Bessie Weinrich ................................ 133 37 Faye Wemmer ................................. 141 38 Bird O. White and Anne White..................... 145 39 Anne Rayner Wilson............................. 147 40 Okey Wood and the Okey Wood Dulcimer ............ 150 Songs and Dulcimer Playing: CD Selections from the Anne Grimes Collection .................... 153 Editors’ Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 Author’s Acknowledgments ........................... 169 Editors’ Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 Selected Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 Subject Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 Title Index ........................................ 187 Contents Contents
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List of Illustrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viiForeword: A Personal Tribute to Anne Grimes. . . . . . . . . . 0ixPreface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiIntroduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1 Frank Allen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182 Reuben Allen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 Bertha Bacon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244 Sarah Basham and Bertha Basham Wright . . . . . . . . . 275 John W. Beattie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316 Henry Lawrence Beecher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347 John M. Bodiker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398 Paul Bogatay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499 Dolleah Church . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5110 Governor James M. Cox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5411 Walter W. Dixon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5612 Dulcerine Players of Southeastern Ohio: Bob White, . . . . Ken Ward, Lilly McGhee Ward Swick, Charles Ralston. . 5813 Arthur Byrd Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6314 Ella Strawser Flack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6515 Blanche Wilson Fullen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6816 Bob Gibson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7217 A. B. Graham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7518 Brodie Franklin Halley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7719 Perry Harper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8020 Amanda Styers Hook. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8421 Arthur Emerson Kieffer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8722 Donald Langstaff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9123 Fanny Hagerman Laylin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9524 Lottie Leas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10225 Bascom Lamar Lunsford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10626 W. E. Lunsford and the John H. Lunsford Dulcimer. . 10827 Marcus and Wade Martin and the Martin Dulcimers . 11028 Jane Jones McNerlin and the . . . . McNerlin Family Dulcimers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11229 The National Folk Festival at St. Louis: . . . . May Kennedy McCord, Jenny Wells Vincent, Pete Seeger . 11430 Neva Randolph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11831 Eli “Babe” Reno . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12032 Branch Rickey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12333 Carl Sandburg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12734 Arthur D. Tyler and the Tyler Dulcimer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12935 William T. Utter and Scheitholts from Licking County . . . . 13236 Bessie Weinrich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13337 Faye Wemmer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14138 Bird O. White and Anne White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14539 Anne Rayner Wilson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14740 Okey Wood and the Okey Wood Dulcimer . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Songs and Dulcimer Playing: CD Selections from the Anne Grimes Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Editors’ Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154Author’s Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169Editors’ Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174Selected Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177Subject Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183Title Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
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Stories from the Anne Grimes Collection of American Folk Music
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Columbus Dispatch Sunday Magazine cover photo of Anne Grimes with her children, 1952 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Map of Ohio with contributors’ names by county . . . . . . . . 2Anne Grimes tape-recording Mrs. J. W. Haigler,
Washington Court House, Ohio, ca. 1955 . . . . . . . . . . . . 4James W. Grimes, 1946 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Anne Grimes with her children, 1951 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Anne Grimes speaking with Mrs. Frances Kelley,
Lima, Ohio, 1953. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Margaret O. Moody with Anne Grimes in
Chillicothe, Ohio, 1955 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Anne Grimes in her Granville, Ohio, home, early 1960s. . . 8Anne Grimes with her dulcimers, mid-1950s . . . . . . . . . . . 9Anne Grimes, ca. 1957. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Ohio Hills Folk Festival poster, designed and
printed by Frank A. Morgan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Anne Grimes at home in Granville, 1987 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13Anne Grimes in Granville, mid-1980s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17Frank Allen with Anne Grimes in
Rio Grande, Ohio, early 1950s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18Frank Allen with Anne Grimes, early 1950s . . . . . . . . . . . . 18Scantling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18Frank Allen, early 1950s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20Reuben Allen in Zanesville, Ohio, 1949 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21Reuben Allen with family members, 1951 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22Bertha Basham Wright and her mother, Sarah Basham, 1957 . 27Anne Grimes’s notation of “Lass of Roch Royal” . . . . . . . . 28Reproduction of “The Ohio Canal” tune and lyrics
from The American Singer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31Margaret O. Moody in Chillicothe, Ohio, 1955 . . . . . . . . . . 32Henry Lawrence Beecher and Anne Grimes
in Mt. Vernon, Ohio, 1953 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34Anne Grimes’s notation of “The Mouse and Plum Cake”. . 37John M. Bodiker in Columbus, Ohio, late 1950s . . . . . . . . . 39John M. Bodiker, 1959 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41Anne Grimes’s notation of “Jack and His Kind Master”. . . 44Dolleah Church at her shop in Columbus, Ohio, mid-1950s. . 51Drawing of bunny with dulcimer by Dolleah Church . . . . . 52Anne Grimes performing in Dayton, Ohio, 1953 . . . . . . . . . 54Anne Grimes’s notation of “The Pious Little Men”. . . . . . . 57Bob White with Anne Grimes in Wilkesville, Ohio, 1955. . 58Bob White with his son, 1955 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59Lilly McGhee Ward Swick near Bidwell, Ohio, 1955 . . . . . 60Lilly McGhee Ward Swick and Ken Ward, 1955 . . . . . . . . . 60Charles Ralston with Anne Grimes
in Gallia County, Ohio, 1955 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61Anne Grimes’s notation of “The Liar’s Song” . . . . . . . . . . . 62Ella Strawser Flack in Columbus, Ohio, mid-1950s . . . . . . 65Anne Grimes’s notation of “Pretty Nancy” . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67Blanche Wilson Fullen, Bessie Growden,
Faye Wemmer, and Ella Flack, 1959 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
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Bob and Rose Gibson, early 1950s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72Bob and Rose Gibson, early 1950s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73Rowena/Bob Gibson concert program designed by Bill Reik. . 73A. B. Graham in Columbus, Ohio, 1957 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75Brodie Franklin Halley in Gallia County, Ohio. . . . . . . . . . 77Brodie Franklin Halley, early 1950s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78Perry Harper in Ray, Ohio, 1955 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80Anne Grimes’s notation of “The Nightingale” . . . . . . . . . . . 82Amanda Styers Hook with Anne Grimes
in Glouster, Ohio, 1958. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84Postboy Road in Tuscarawas County, Ohio . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87Donald Langstaff with Anne Grimes
in his home, Toboso, Ohio, 1954 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91Anne Grimes in Donald Langstaff’s home, 1954 . . . . . . . . . 92Donald Langstaff in his home, 1954 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92Fanny Hagerman Laylin in Columbus, Ohio, mid-1950s . . 95Adeline Hughes Hagerman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96Broadside of “Sinclaire’s Defeat” published
by Frazer Ells Wilson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102Ticket to Mountain Dance and Folk Festival, 1958 . . . . . . . 107W. E. Lunsford holding his father’s dulcimer, mid-1950s . . 108W. E. Lunsford with Anne Grimes
in Columbus, Ohio, mid-1950s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109Anne Grimes with Wade Martin dulcimer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110Jane Jones McNerlin with her dulcimer
in Oak Hill, Ohio, 1953. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112Anne Grimes singing the National Anthem
at the National Folk Festival in St. Louis, 1952. . . . . . . . 114May Kennedy McCord on the cover of
Springfield’s Bias, 1954. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115Anne Grimes with “Wyoming Jack” O’Brien
and Harry Belafonte, 1953 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116Neva Randolph in Murray City, Ohio, early 1940s . . . . . . . 118Arbannah and Eli “Babe” Reno . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120Carl Sandburg with Anne Grimes at his home
in North Carolina, 1956 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127Arthur D. Tyler with his dulcimer in Columbus, Ohio, 1954 . . 129Columbus Dispatch Sunday Magazine cover photo
of Arthur D. Tyler, 1957 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131Johnstown scheitholt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132Tilton scheitholt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132Aeolian wind harp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132Bessie Weinrich with Anne Grimes in Vigo, Ohio, ca. 1953 . 133Bessie Weinrich with Anne Grimes, ca. 1953 . . . . . . . . . . . 133Bessie and Philip Weinrich, ca. 1953 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134Anne Grimes’s notation of “The Big Shirt” . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140Faye Wemmer with Anne Grimes in Columbus, Ohio, 1950s. . 141Faye Wemmer in Columbus, Ohio, 1950s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143Notation of “Logan’s Lament” by Anne Rayner Wilson . . . 147Okey Wood dulcimer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150Detail of Okey Wood dulcimer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
