Episodes

Feb. 10, 2022

Episode 70 - Til Death Do Us Part - True Love All the Way to the Grave

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 visit the gravesites of three couples who were truly in love in life and are buried side b...

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Feb. 3, 2022

Episode 69 - Riverside Cemetery in Waterbury, Connecticut

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 Martin Begnal, president of the Friends of Riverside Cemetery in Waterbury, Connecticut. Mar...

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Jan. 27, 2022

Episode 68 - In Remembrance of Joe Arridy at Greenwood Cemetery in Ca…

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 Casper Johnson as they revisit one of Diane's favorite cemeteries, Greenwood C...

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Jan. 20, 2022

Episode 67 - Gangsters' Paradise - St. Paul, Minnesota and a visit to…

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Alvin “Creepy” Karpis once said, “Of all the midwest cities the one I knew best was St. Paul and it was a crook’s haven." In...

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Jan. 13, 2022

Episode 66 - Dr. Thomas Edge Discusses the Care and Remembrance of Ly…

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Jennie and Dianne interview their first guest of the new year! Dr. Thomas Edge is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Dep...

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Jan. 6, 2022

Episode 65 - Wyuka Cemetery in Lincoln, Nebraska

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Dec. 23, 2021

Episode 64 - Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol with The Rebel at La…

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Drifter and Gypsie of the Rebel at Large Adventure podcast join Jennie and her son Charlie and husband Dave in an abridged r...

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Dec. 16, 2021

Episode 63 - Mount Calvary Cemetery and its Luminarias in Albuquerque…

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Jennie and Dianne visit the Land of Enchantment, specifically Mount Calvary Cemetery in Albuquerque, New Mexico where every ...

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Dec. 9, 2021

Episode 62 - Winchester Cathedral, Jane Austen & Christmas

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Dianne and Jennie explore one of the world's largest Gothic cathedrals, Winchester Cathedral in Winchester, England. This ca...

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Dec. 2, 2021

Episode 61 - BloomBridge Update with Founder Kristen Allen

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Jennie and Dianne sit down with BloomBridge founder Kristen Allen for an update on how the flower delivery service has been ...

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Nov. 25, 2021

Episode 60 - Indigenous Peoples of the American Southwest and their B…

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. November is National Native American Heritage Month so in this episode Jennie and Dianne learn about the death and burial tr...

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Nov. 18, 2021

Episode 59 - Abolitionist Moses Summers in Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse…

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Jennie and Dianne chat with fellow taphophile and podcast host Hugh Yeman about his extraordinary leap down the rabbit hole ...

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Nov. 11, 2021

Episode 58 - Veteran's Day 2021 and America's Cemetery in Hermitage, …

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 pay homage to America's military veterans as they explore America's Cemetery and the Avenu...

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Nov. 4, 2021

Episode 57 - Elm Grove Cemetery in Mystic, Connecticut

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Dianne and Jennie take an Autumn stroll through beautiful Elm Grove Cemetery in Mystic, Connecticut. They explore the histor...

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Oct. 28, 2021

Episode 56 - Beyond the Grave: Cemetery Wanderings with Edgar Allan P…

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...

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Oct. 21, 2021

Episode 55 - Oak Grove Cemetery and the Borden Family in Fall River, …

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Dianne and Jennie sit down with special guest Shelley Dziedzic to discuss Oak Grove Cemetery in Fall River, Massachusetts wh...

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Oct. 14, 2021

Episode 54 - Eastern Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky

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 Andy Harpole and Savannah Darr of the Friends of Eastern Cemetery and by fel...

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Oct. 7, 2021

Episode 53 - Happy One Year Anniversary Ordinary Extraordinary Cemete…

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. In this very special episode Jennie and Dianne celebrate the one year anniversary of the Ordinary Extraordinary Cemetery pod...

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Sept. 30, 2021

Episode 52 - Special Guest Nolan Altman and the JewishGen Online Worl…

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Jennie and Dianne chat with special guest Nolan Altman about how a simple question from his daughter led him down genealogy ...

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Sept. 23, 2021

Episode 51 - The Spirit Houses in St. Nicholas Cemetery in Eklutna, A…

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. In this episode of the Ordinary Extraordinary Cemetery Jennie and Dianne share news of a 140-year-old cemetery that was lost...

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Sept. 16, 2021

Episode 50 - A Conversation with Necrotourist Ken Naegele

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Jennie and Dianne sit down and talk with necrotourist Ken Naegele who is also the host of The Cemetery Podcast. Ken shares m...

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Sept. 9, 2021

Episode 49 - Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. “No abbey’s gloom, nor dark cathedral stoops, No winding torches paint the midnight air; Here the green pines delight, the a...

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Sept. 2, 2021

Episode 48 - The Little Cemetery in the Sky & St Mary of the Snows, D…

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Jennie and Dianne explore a couple of highly unique Belgian immigrant cemeteries located in Door County, Wisconsin. Is there...

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Aug. 26, 2021

Episode 47- Oakwood Cemetery - Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Jennie and Dianne take you to one of Ohio's most beautiful garden cemeteries, Oakwood Cemetery in Cuyahoga Falls. In this ep...

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