Episodes

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

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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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March 16, 2023

Episode 126 - Salem Witch Hysteria Part 3

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 explore the aftermath of the Salem Witch Trials in part three of their series. Discover what ...

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March 9, 2023

Episode 125 - Salem Witch Hysteria Part 2

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. In this week's episode of The Ordinary Extraordinary Cemetery, Jennie and Dianne continue their series on the infamous 1692 ...

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March 2, 2023

Episode 124 - Salem Witch Hysteria Part 1

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Jennie and Dianne discuss the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 in part one of a two part series. The Salem witch trials were a dar...

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Feb. 23, 2023

Episode 123 - For Love of the Little Ones

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 share heartwarming stories of love for children. The first story takes us back to the Gre...

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Feb. 16, 2023

Episode 122 - "How Do I Love Thee...Beyond the Grave?"

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." Happy belated Valentine's Day! In this episode Jennie and Dianne are continuing...

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Feb. 9, 2023

Episode 121 - For Love of Mules and Horses

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Jennie and Dianne kick off a month of love as they delve into the fascinating bond between humans and their beloved equine c...

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Feb. 2, 2023

Episode 120 - The Men Who Created Groundhog Day

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. "This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather.​"...

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Jan. 26, 2023

Episode 119 - Whitehall Cemetery (Burial Ground) in Mystic, Connectic…

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Whitehall cemetery, also called Whitehall burial ground or Whitehall graveyard, is the oldest burial ground in Mystic, Conne...

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Jan. 18, 2023

Episode 118 Say What? A Cemetery Q and A Part 2

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Dianne and Jennie continue to answer your questions in this second Q and A installment of the Ordinary Extraordinary Cemeter...

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