[5] At Ohio State University, she began graduate work in music history and theory with a specialization in piano and voice although she did not complete her studies.
[7] He designed the costumes Grimes wore for presentations based on the outfits of Ohio pioneer women as well as assist with recording.
[4][8] At the end of World War II, Grimes began traveling across Ohio, collecting and preserving folk songs.
[10] Grimes' contributors (her term for informants) were from many backgrounds, but her collection also contained items from Carl Sandburg, Pete Seeger, Jenny Wells Vincent, and Bob Gibson.
To mark the occasion, she performed with her friend and fellow folklorist, Joe Hickerson at the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.[1] Grimes died at 91, in January 2004 at her residence in Oberlin, Ohio.
The book included a CD with 33 recordings from the Anne Grimes Collection in the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress.