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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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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 ...

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 ...

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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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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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...

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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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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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 ...

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...