Jennie and Dianne are joined by first time guest Dr. Joy Giguere to learn how American burial grounds changed from merely Ordinary Extraordinary places of interment, to rural landscapes meant to appear natural and ease the burden of grief, to the streamlined lawn cemeteries we often see today. Dr. Joy…
"Be kind, be kind because kindness may always help out someone who is suffering." These words of advice were written from a mother to her daughters when she feared that her time on earth was growing short, that mother was Mary "Queen" Mellen Palmer. She was mother to three daughters…
Meet Louise Bethel Sneed Hill a Southern Belle who transformed Denver's "social wasteland" and created her own high-class hierarchy that included the who's who of Denver's wealthiest and most influential people at the turn of the 20th century.
Donation Link for The Sleepy Hollow Cemetery Historic Fund: https://gofund.me/0d2d6429 To learn more about the Ordinary Extraordinary Cemetery Podcast visit: https://www.theordinaryextraordinarycemetery.com/ This video was recorded on September 17, 2022 at Fairmount cemetery in Denver, Colorado. Is the headless Hessian a figment of the mind, or does this specter haunt the…
Remembering those who gave their lives for the freedom of others. Memorial Day 2022.