Episodes

Sept. 7, 2023

Episode 150 - Providence Rhode Island's North Burial Ground's Remarka…

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 are joined by Annalisa Heppner, Cemetery Director of North Burial Ground in Providence, R...

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Aug. 31, 2023

Episode 149 - Eternal Innovations: The Story of Fisk Cast Iron Coffins

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 delve into the intriguing world of Fisk metallic burial cases, also known as Fisk coffins. Un...

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Aug. 23, 2023

Episode 148 - Beyond Ghosts: Honoring Lives at Martha's Chapel Cemete…

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. A Google search for Martha's Chapel Cemetery will lead you down a reportedly haunted road where any number of ghostly spirit...

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Aug. 17, 2023

Episode 147 - Ordinary Extraordinary Teachers of the Past

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Children in many parts of the U.S. gathered their supplies and donned their backpacks, as they headed back to school. Many m...

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Aug. 10, 2023

Episode 146 - A Gilded Age Tale: The Owl Mausoleum of James Gordon Be…

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. On the western side of Paris, France, not far from the Eiffel Tower, is Cimetière de Passy, a small cemetery where a simple ...

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Aug. 3, 2023

Episode 145 - The Souls Close to Edgar Allan Poe: Graves of his Famil…

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Jennie and Dianne are joined this week by a favorite returning guest, Dr. Sharon Pajka, to discuss her new book being releas...

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July 27, 2023

Episode 144 - Changing Perspectives in Cemetery Landscapes: Rural to …

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 first time guest Dr. Joy Giguere to learn how American burial grounds changed from merely Or...

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July 20, 2023

Episode 143 - Kindness in the Wild West: The Inspirational Life of Ma…

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. "Be kind, be kind because kindness may always help out someone who is suffering." These words of advice were written from a ...

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July 13, 2023

Episode 142 - From Quaker Values to Railroad Empires: The Life and Le…

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. The New York Times called him "the foremost citizen of Colorado." William H. Spurgeon said he was "the soldier, the builder ...

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July 6, 2023

Episode 141 - Historic St. Mary's Mission & Churchyard in Stevensvill…

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. This week on the Ordinary Extraordinary Cemetery podcast...Nestled in the Bitterroot Valley beneath St. Mary’s Peak, a mount...

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June 29, 2023

Episode 140 - Spellbound in the Southwest: The Witch Trials of Abiqui…

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 Rick Hendricks, PhD to learn about a series of fascinating witch trials that took place not ...

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June 22, 2023

Episode 139 - Beneath the Rockies Part 2: Visiting Colorado's Histori…

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 continue their exploration of Colorado cemeteries that will be visited by members of the A...

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June 15, 2023

Episode 138 - Beneath the Rockies Part 1: Visiting Colorado's Histori…

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. This week Jennie and Dianne prepare to welcome members of the Association for Gravestone Studies to colorful Colorado for th...

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June 8, 2023

Episode 137 - The Life and Death of Illustrator Ellen Clapsaddle

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Jennie and Dianne are joined this week by returning guest, author and historian Pamela McColl, as they unravel the life and ...

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May 25, 2023

Episode 136 - The Man, the Myth, the Cowboy: John Wayne

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. "I want to play a real man in all my films, and I define manhood simply: men should be tough, fair and courageous, never pet...

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May 18, 2023

Episode 135 - Harmonizing History: A Chat with the Band Goodnight, Te…

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 journey through the intertwining worlds of music, storytelling, history, and cemeteries. T...

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May 11, 2023

Episode 134 - The Legacy of the G.A.R.: Honoring Union Veterans and M…

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Jennie and Dianne conclude their series on fraternal organizations in this episode, where they explore a distinctively Ameri...

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May 4, 2023

Episode 133 - Brotherhood and Benevolence: Exploring the Knights of P…

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 dive into the origins of the Knights of Pythias, a fraternal organization founded on the valu...

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April 27, 2023

Episode 132 - The Independent Order of Odd Fellows: From Its Origins …

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Fraternal organizations have a long and rich history throughout the world and especially in America. This week Jennie and Di...

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April 20, 2023

Episode 131 - Under the Stone: Early Women Doctors in Evergreen Cemet…

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Jennie and Dianne are joined this week by special guest, author and historian Doris McCraw, who wrote the book "Under the St...

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April 13, 2023

Episode 130 - "Corpse for Sale: The Burke and Hare Murders of 1828"

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. This week Jennie and Dianne stray from the cemetery to explore the gruesome and shocking details of the Burke and Hare murde...

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April 6, 2023

Episode 129 - The Shroud of Turin: Legend, Science and Faith

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. With Easter just a few days away, Jennie and Dianne dive deep into the mysterious and controversial subject of the Shroud of...

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March 30, 2023

Episode 128 - Ordinary Extraordinary Women: Uncovering the Hidden Sto…

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Jennie and Dianne celebrate the last week of Women's History Month by revisiting some past interviews with women who have re...

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March 23, 2023

Episode 127 - A Tale of Two Women: Molly Brown and Louise Sneed Hill

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 celebrate Women's History Month as they explore the lives and legacies of two women who h...

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