Contents

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, . 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 v Stories from the Anne Grimes Collection of American Illustrations

Columbus Dispatch Sunday Magazine cover photo of Anne Grimes with her children, 1952...... 1 Map of Ohio with contributors’ names by county ...... 2 Anne Grimes tape-recording Mrs. J. W. Haigler, Washington Court House, Ohio, ca. 1955 ...... 4 James W. Grimes, 1946 ...... 5 Anne Grimes with her children, 1951...... 5 Anne Grimes speaking with Mrs. Frances Kelley, Lima, Ohio, 1953...... 6 Margaret O. Moody with Anne Grimes in Chillicothe, Ohio, 1955 ...... 7 Anne Grimes in her Granville, Ohio, home, early 1960s. . . 8 Anne Grimes with her dulcimers, mid-1950s ...... 9 Anne Grimes, ca. 1957...... 11 Ohio Hills Folk Festival poster, designed and printed by Frank A. Morgan ...... 12 Anne Grimes at home in Granville, 1987 ...... 13 Anne Grimes in Granville, mid-1980s ...... 17 Frank Allen with Anne Grimes in Rio Grande, Ohio, early 1950s...... 18 Frank Allen with Anne Grimes, early 1950s...... 18 Scantling...... 18 Frank Allen, early 1950s...... 20 Reuben Allen in Zanesville, Ohio, 1949 ...... 21 Reuben Allen with family members, 1951...... 22 Bertha Basham Wright and her mother, Sarah Basham, 1957 . 27 Anne Grimes’s notation of “Lass of Roch Royal” . . . . . 28 Reproduction of “The Ohio Canal” tune and lyrics from The American Singer ...... 31 Margaret O. Moody in Chillicothe, Ohio, 1955...... 32 Henry Lawrence Beecher and Anne Grimes in Mt. Vernon, Ohio, 1953 ...... 34 Anne Grimes’s notation of “The Mouse and Plum Cake”. . 37 John M. Bodiker in Columbus, Ohio, late 1950s. . . . . 39 John M. Bodiker, 1959 ...... 41 Anne Grimes’s notation of “Jack and His Kind Master”. . . 44 Dolleah Church at her shop in Columbus, Ohio, mid-1950s. . 51 Drawing of bunny with dulcimer by Dolleah Church. . . . . 52 Anne Grimes performing in Dayton, Ohio, 1953...... 54 Anne Grimes’s notation of “The Pious Little Men”...... 57 Bob White with Anne Grimes in Wilkesville, Ohio, 1955. . 58 Bob White with his son, 1955...... 59 Lilly McGhee Ward Swick near Bidwell, Ohio, 1955. . . 60 Lilly McGhee Ward Swick and Ken Ward, 1955...... 60 Charles Ralston with Anne Grimes in Gallia County, Ohio, 1955 ...... 61 Anne Grimes’s notation of “The Liar’s Song”...... 62 Ella Strawser Flack in Columbus, Ohio, mid-1950s. . . . 65 Anne Grimes’s notation of “Pretty Nancy” ...... 67 Blanche Wilson Fullen, Bessie Growden, Faye Wemmer, and Ella Flack, 1959...... 68

Illustrations vii Bob and Rose Gibson, early 1950s...... 72 Bob and Rose Gibson, early 1950s...... 73 Rowena/Bob Gibson concert program designed by Bill Reik. . 73 A. B. Graham in Columbus, Ohio, 1957 ...... 75 Brodie Franklin Halley in Gallia County, Ohio...... 77 Brodie Franklin Halley, early 1950s ...... 78 Perry Harper in Ray, Ohio, 1955 ...... 80 Anne Grimes’s notation of “The Nightingale”...... 82 Amanda Styers Hook with Anne Grimes in Glouster, Ohio, 1958...... 84 Postboy Road in Tuscarawas County, Ohio...... 87 Donald Langstaff with Anne Grimes in his home, Toboso, Ohio, 1954 ...... 91 Anne Grimes in Donald Langstaff’s home, 1954...... 92 Donald Langstaff in his home, 1954 ...... 92 Fanny Hagerman Laylin in Columbus, Ohio, mid-1950s . . 95 Adeline Hughes Hagerman...... 96 Broadside of “Sinclaire’s Defeat” published by Frazer Ells Wilson ...... 102 Ticket to Mountain Dance and Folk Festival, 1958 ...... 107 W. E. Lunsford holding his father’s dulcimer, mid-1950s . . 108 W. E. Lunsford with Anne Grimes in Columbus, Ohio, mid-1950s...... 109 Anne Grimes with Wade Martin dulcimer ...... 110 Jane Jones McNerlin with her dulcimer in Oak Hill, Ohio, 1953...... 112 Anne Grimes singing the National Anthem at the National Folk Festival in St. Louis, 1952...... 114 May Kennedy McCord on the cover of Springfield’s Bias, 1954...... 115 Anne Grimes with “Wyoming Jack” O’Brien and Harry Belafonte, 1953 ...... 116 Neva Randolph in Murray City, Ohio, early 1940s. . . . 118 Arbannah and Eli “Babe” Reno ...... 120 Carl Sandburg with Anne Grimes at his home in , 1956...... 127 Arthur D. Tyler with his dulcimer in Columbus, Ohio, 1954 . . 129 Columbus Dispatch Sunday Magazine cover photo of Arthur D. Tyler, 1957...... 131 Johnstown scheitholt...... 132 Tilton scheitholt ...... 132 Aeolian wind harp...... 132 Bessie Weinrich with Anne Grimes in Vigo, Ohio, ca. 1953. 133 Bessie Weinrich with Anne Grimes, ca. 1953 ...... 133 Bessie and Philip Weinrich, ca. 1953 ...... 134 Anne Grimes’s notation of “The Big Shirt”...... 140 Faye Wemmer with Anne Grimes in Columbus, Ohio, 1950s. . 141 Faye Wemmer in Columbus, Ohio, 1950s ...... 143 Notation of “Logan’s Lament” by Anne Rayner Wilson . . . 147 Okey Wood dulcimer...... 150 Detail of Okey Wood dulcimer ...... 152

viii Stories from the Anne Grimes Collection of