Episodes
Episode 117 - Say What? A Cemetery Q & A Part 1
Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Jennie and Dianne kick off 2023 by answering many questions posed by their listeners over the course of the previous year. T...
Episode 116 - Christmas; Or the Good Fairy: A Harriet Beecher Stowe C…
Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Jennie and Dianne have made a tradition of sharing classic Christmas stories each year and have chosen an especially lovely ...
Episode 115 - Twas the Night Before an Interview with Author Pamela M…
Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. "Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse." Opening lines t...
Episode 114 - Two Cincinnati Rabbis and the Story of Hanukkah
Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Hanukkah has become a part of the Jewish-American experience that was essentially brought about by two Rabbis who worked tir...
Episode 113 - The Grave of Alfred Nobel and the Story of His Life
Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Jennie and Dianne pay homage to a man whose legacy has held much sway over the world for more than 150 years when he stipula...
Episode 112 - Part 2 Old Burial Hill In Plymouth, Massachusetts
Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Jennie and Dianne continue to explore Old Burial Hill cemetery in Plymouth, Massachusetts. They recount a love story that to...
Episode 111 - Old Burial Hill In Plymouth, Massachusetts
Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Happy Thanksgiving! Dianne and Jennie explore Old Burial Hill in Plymouth, Massachusetts. This is Plymouth's second oldest b...
Episode 110 - Death and the Puritans
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Episode 109 - Interview with Wreaths Across America
Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. In honor of Veteran's Day, Jennie and Dianne sit down with the executive director of Wreaths Across America, Karen Worcester...
Episode 108 - Clay Street Cemetery in Fairbanks, Alaska
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Episode 107 - Beyond the Grave: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Join Jennie and Dianne for this very special Halloween edition of the Ordinary Extraordinary Cemetery podcast. Grab your fav...
Episode 106 - Washington Irving, The Man
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Episode 105 - Hope Moravian Cemetery or the Cemetery Drop Off Scene i…
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 Drifter and Gypsie of the Rebel at Large Adventure podcast for a special Friday the 13th...e...
Episode 104 - A Trip Down Memory Lane
Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. This episode should have been an episode with a group of very special guests, however, technical difficulties made that impo...
Episode 103 - Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York
Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. "Not far from this village, perhaps about two miles, there is a little valley or rather lap of land among high hills, which ...
Episode 102 - 4 Historic Cemeteries in Edinburgh, Scotland
Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Dianne and Jennie chat with special guest Ahna Wolff. Ahna took a trip to Edinburgh, Scotland over the summer in order to st...
Episode 101 - “Operation Sacred Rescue” The Reburial of the Sisters o…
Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Dianne and Jennie have often discussed cemeteries that have been moved, meaning the dead have been disinterred and moved to ...
Episode 100 - Celebrating 100 Episodes of The Ordinary Extraordinary …
Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Jennie and Dianne look back through the first 99 episodes of The Ordinary Extraordinary Cemetery podcast. They discuss some ...
Episode 99 - Burials in the Floating City - Venice, Italy
Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. How have the people of Venice, Italy buried their dead over the centuries? Founded in the 5th century and spread over 118 sm...
Episode 98 - Lost Cemeteries of New Orleans
Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. New Orleans, Louisiana is famously known for its intricate above ground cemeteries, but what about the cemeteries that have ...
Episode 97 - Exploding Casket Syndrome & Other Kooky Cemetery Facts
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 learn about some of the craziest phenomenons that happen in cemeteries, such as exploding ...
Episode 96 - A Cemetery Chat
Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Dianne and Jennie chat about their upcoming fundraiser, Beyond the Grave: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Dianne also gives an ...
Episode 95 - Francis Scott Key and the American National Anthem
Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Jennie and Dianne learn about Francis Scott Key and his gravesite at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Frederick, Maryland. Francis S...
Episode 94 - Good Time Girls of the West an Interview with Author Jan…
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 special guest Jan MacKell Collins, author of The Good Time Girls book series to discuss the ...