Episodes

Feb. 11, 2021

Episode 19 Love Beyond the Grave

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Love is in the air! OR buried beneath the soil! Join Jennie and Dianne as they visit Layton Cemetery in the town of Blackpoo...

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Feb. 4, 2021

Episode 18 - Special Guest Deborah Andres and Funeral Service Around …

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Jennie and Dianne talk with special guest Deborah Andres. Deborah has dedicated two decades of her life to the funeral profe...

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Jan. 28, 2021

Episode 17 - The Great Fire of Salem 1914 - Walnut Grove Cemetery and…

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. In this episode Jennie and Dianne travel back in time to experience June 25, 1914 in Salem, Massachusetts. On that day the w...

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Jan. 21, 2021

Episode 16 - America's First 10 Presidents and Where They're Buried

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Jennie and Dianne virtually visit the gravesites of the first 10 presidents of the United States of America. They also share...

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Jan. 14, 2021

Episode 15 - Cemetery Task Force - Natural Disasters, Restoration & B…

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Jennie and Dianne are joined by Ryan Seidemann and Christine Halling of the Louisiana Cemetery Task Force to discuss what ha...

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Jan. 7, 2021

Episode 14 - The Old Burying Ground and the Wreck of the Brig Hattie …

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. In this episode Jennie and Dianne pay a visit to the Old Burying Ground, also called the First Congregational Church Cemeter...

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Dec. 31, 2020

Episode 13 - Happy New Year and the Spoon River Anthology

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Join Jennie and Dianne as they read select and rather juicy poems from The Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters. These...

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Dec. 24, 2020

Episode 12 - Tilly's Christmas & Louisa May Alcott's grave in Sleepy …

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Merry Christmas! In this episode Jennie and Dianne make a brief stop at the graveside of Louisa May Alcott and then retell o...

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Dec. 17, 2020

Episode 11 - Arctic Explorers of Arlington National Cemetery, Arlingt…

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Jennie and Dianne travel back in time to explore the Arctic and the North Pole with three explorers who are buried in Arling...

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Dec. 10, 2020

Hanukkah and the American Revolution - Chatham Square Jewish Cemetery…

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Dianne and Jennie learn the story of Hanukkah and how it parallels to the American Revolution through the war heroes buried ...

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Dec. 3, 2020

Episode 9 - An American Christmas Carol Immanuel Cemetery, Bellows Fa…

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. It's December and that means for many people a month long celebration of winter festivities as we approach the end of anothe...

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Nov. 26, 2020

Episode 8 - Evergreen Cemetery in Colorado Springs, Colorado

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Jennie and Dianne discuss the founding of the oldest cemetery in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Evergreen Cemetery as well as ...

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Nov. 19, 2020

Episode 7 - Oak Grove Cemetery's Acadian People's: Saint Marys, Georg…

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Jennie and Dianne begin this episode in Oak Grove Cemetery in Saint Marys, Georgia, but to tell the story of the Tomb of Aca...

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Nov. 12, 2020

Episode 6 - "They rode for Parker" - Oak Cemetery, Fort Smith, Arkans…

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Jennie and Diane speak with Ryan M. Seidemann, lawyer, archeologist, anthropologist, professor, and cemeterian as he tells ...

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Nov. 5, 2020

Episode 5 - Burial Customs and Cemetery Traditions

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Did you know that to be buried facing West is symbolic for facing freedom? When is it appropriate to cry for a deceased love...

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Oct. 29, 2020

Episode 4 - Coast to Coast Haunted Cemeteries

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Join Dianne and Jennie as they "road trip" from the West coast to the East coast of the United States seeking out ordinary, ...

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Oct. 22, 2020

Episode 3 - Bald Mountain Cemetery & the Poetry of P.E. Redmond

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Jennie and Dianne return to Central City, CO to explore the hidden mountain gem that is Bald Mountain Cemetery. They also fi...

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Oct. 15, 2020

Episode 2 - The Champions and Central City, Colorado

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Join Dianne and Jennie as they tell the story of Hugh and Levinia Champion, a couple who married, had children, and died in ...

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Oct. 8, 2020

Episode 1 - Welcome to the Ordinary, Extraordinary Cemetery!

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Meet taphophiles (cemetery lovers) Jennie and Dianne as they discuss their love for cemeteries, talk cemetery history, and e...

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