The 150 Project recently announced their monthly historic talk for August, and will be hosting Dr. Jordan Laney as a speaker on Thursday, Aug. 24 at 6 p.m.
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Daily Distraction: Celebrate Women s History Month with Ohio folklorist Anne Grimes
In the 1950s, the musician and scholar recorded traditional folk songs performed by citizens from all over Ohio
Columbus Alive
In a recent interview, sound artist Brian Harnetty spoke about the thousands of recordings housed at the Berea College Appalachian Sound Archives in Kentucky. Ohio has fewer of such archival recordings, but many of the ones we do have, we owe to Anne Grimes.
Grimes was a folksinger and dulcimer player (and collector) who recorded on the famed Folkways label. A Columbus native and 1912 graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University, she served as the president of the Ohio Folklore Society, performed at national folk festivals and wrote about dance and music for former Columbus newspaper the