Episodes
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 ...
Episode 93 - Juneau, Alaska's Evergreen Cemetery
Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Jennie and Dianne explore Evergreen Cemetery in Juneau, Alaska. Founded in 1891, Evergreen Cemetery has become the final res...
Episode 92 - Gold Rush Cemetery in Skagway, Alaska
Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. "And those who have undergone [life in Alaska] claim that in the making of the world God grew tired, and when He came to the...
Episode 91 - An Overview of Alaskan Cemeteries
Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Jennie and Dianne discuss the many cemeteries Jennie was able to visit while in Alaska. From the coastal town of Ketchikan t...
Episode 90 - Oakland Cemetery in Little Falls, Minnesota
Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Dianne and Jennie share news of Oakland Cemetery in Little Falls, Minnesota, and how residents and the cemetery board are cl...
Episode 89 - Lincoln Park & the Old City Cemetery in Chicago, Illinois
Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. In episode 87 Jennie and Dianne talked briefly about the Potter's Field that used to exist where a baseball field is now in ...
Episode 88 - Special Guests Sarah and Jeffrey from Salem the Podcast
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 Jeffrey and Sarah, hosts of Salem the Podcast and two of Salem's best tour guides, to talk a...
Episode 87 - Paupers' Graves & Potter's Fields
Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Most cemeteries, both old and modern, contain a section often referred to as a Potter's field. In this episode, Dianne and J...
Episode 86 - A Special Mausoleum and a Family Cemetery
Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. In this episode Dianne and Jennie learn about one man's heartache and how it led him to build a magnificent mausoleum and go...
Episode 85 - The Buffalo Soldiers
Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Just in time for Memorial Day, Jennie and Dianne are joined by special guest Andrew Bell, a former Sergeant-Major in the US ...
Episode 84 - Mount Carmel Catholic Cemetery - Chicago, Illinois
Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Dianne and Jennie explore Chicago's Mount Carmel Catholic Cemetery and learn about its inception due to Chicago's growing im...
Episode 83 - Getting Involved in Local Cemetery Preservation, Upkeep,…
Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Jennie and Dianne chat about cemeteries in the spring and summer time! This is the time of year when many cemeteries offer t...
Episode 82 - One Last Wave Project: A Conversation with Founder Dan F…
Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Henry David Thoreau wrote, "You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.”...
Episode 81 - Harvard Shaker "Lollipop" Cemetery in Harvard, Massachus…
Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Jennie and Dianne explore the Harvard Shaker "Lollipop" Cemetery located in Harvard, Massachusetts. The "lollipops" in the c...
Episode 80 - ANZAC Day in Australia and New Zealand
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 the April 25th tradition of ANZAC Day in Australia and New Zealand. ANZAC sta...
Episode 79 - Death by What? Three Deaths Caused by Unusual Circumstan…
Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. What do a toothpick, a scarf and a banana peel have in common? This might sound like the beginning to a bad joke, but in th...
Episode 78 - It's a Pirate's Life...or Death for Us! Pirate Graves in…
Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Avast ye, hearties! Jennie and Dianne take to the high seas to visit the world's only known pirate cemetery hidden away on I...
Episode 77 - Three Women of the Wild West
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 special guest Laurilea McDaniel to discuss three exceptional women who helpe...
Episode 76 - Caroline Emmerton and The House of the Seven Gables in S…
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 David Moffat, a Visitor Services Specialist & researcher at The House of the Seven Gables. D...
Episode 75 Irish Wakes and Funerals
Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Happy St. Patrick's Day! In this episode Dianne and Jennie explore the traditions and customs that have made Irish wakes wor...
Episode 74 - Women Writers Buried in Virginia Part 2
Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Jennie and Dianne continue their discussion with Sharon Pajka, PhD about the 44 ordinary extraordinary women writers covered...
Episode 73 - Women Writers Buried in Virginia
Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Jennie and Dianne welcome writer and professor of English Sharon Pajka, PhD back to the show to discuss her latest book, "Wo...
Episode 72 - "Bulldogging" Bill Pickett: Cowboy, Wild West Show Perfo…
Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Jennie and Dianne visit the gravesite of Bill Pickett a black man who was born just after the American Civil War. He spent h...
Episode 71 - Black Cowboys of the American West
Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Jennie and Dianne visit the gravesites of two heros of the American west, Bose Ikard and Nat Love. Both men were born into s...