Anne Baxter received her BA degree in anthropology/archeology and history with a minor in English from Florida State University in Tallahassee. After graduation, she accepted a research assistantship to attend graduate school there. Her thesis was on ceramic clay provenance at a prehistoric Native American Midden site along the Aucilla River. Her thesis was one of the first using geologic methods of composition analysis to determine provenance of ceramic pottery shards to establish whether pottery was manufactured locally or non locally. Implications of this would be in determining cross cultural connections between various tribes and trade routes.

She received another research assistantship at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale to study for a Ph. D. Anne was the only female graduate student in the anthropology/archeology department.

While enrolled in the doctorate program at SIU, she did the preliminary archival  research of Fort Massac, a pre colonial on the Ohio River, served as archeologist and supervisor of the classification and cataloguing of artifacts, in charge of several undergraduate students.

After moving to Miami, Anne was employed by the University of Miami at the main campus’s Center for Urban Research and the Virginia Key Rosensteil School of Marine Sciences. During this time she studied Marine Biology where she began her love of the ocean and all its creatures.

She moved to the Keys and had such jobs as dolphin trainer, tropical fish collector, real estate property manager, and marine science education.

She worked as instructor at several of the Keys marine science schools: Marine Resources Development Foundation in Key Largo and Marine Science Under Sails who carried out marine science studies at the Koblick Marine Center, The Boy Scout Sea Base, and Pennekamp Park as well as aboard sailing ships.

 Anne purchased a 36 foot houseboat and was one of the first to run ecotours in 1985.  While operating from the Sheraton Hotel, she gave slide shows every Tuesday night. Subsequently she ran eco tours boats for several firms in the Upper Keys area. Since 1997 she has been owner operator of Easy Adventures from World Wide Sportsman.