Episodes

Oct. 3, 2024

Episode 203 - Mary Shelley the Woman Behind the Monster Part 2

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Sept. 26, 2024

Episode 202 - Mary Shelley the Woman Behind the Monster Part 1

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. This year's Beyond the Grave event honors Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, but who was the woman behind the iconic novel? Born t...

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Sept. 19, 2024

Episode 201 - Hillside Cemetery, Middletown, New York

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; while Dianne is away, Jennie welcomes a new guest, JoEllen Hundela...

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Sept. 12, 2024

Episode 200 - Celebrating 200 Episodes with Kristen Allen of Bloombri…

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Join The Ordinary, Extraordinary Cemetery podcast for a milestone episode - our 200th! For this special episode Dianne and J...

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Sept. 5, 2024

Episode 199 - "Pleasure Grounds of Death" Part 2 with Joy Giguere

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Jennie and Dianne are excited to share Part 2 of our discussion with author Joy Giguere on "Pleasure Grounds of Death: The R...

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Aug. 29, 2024

Episode 198 - "Pleasure Grounds of Death" Part 1 with Joy Giguere

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, Jennie and Dianne welcome Joy Giguere back to discuss her new book "Pleasu...

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Aug. 22, 2024

Episode 197 - The Life & Legacy of Billy the Kid

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Saddle up, partners as Jennie and Dianne 'shoot' the breeze with Josh Taylor of the Wild West Extravaganza Podcast (and YouT...

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Aug. 8, 2024

Episode 196 - The Great Eiffel Tower Swindle! Part 2

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. In part 1 of "The Great Eiffel Tower Swindle" Jennie and Dianne share the humble beginnings of a man who became known as one...

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Aug. 8, 2024

Episode 195 - The Great Eiffel Tower Swindle! Part 1

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. As the world's eyes are on Paris for the Olympics, we're looking back at a different kind of champion - the con artist who s...

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July 25, 2024

Episode 194 - Making a Splash: The John Michael Kohler Story

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. On this episode of The Ordinary Extraordinary Cemetery, Jennie and Dianne pay a virtual visit to the graveside of a man who ...

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July 18, 2024

Episode 193 - Preserving the Past: Lessons from the Annual 48 State T…

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 Jennie and Dianne review their recent "gravestone preservation work...

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July 11, 2024

Episode 192 - East Coast Escapades

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July 4, 2024

Episode 191 - An Independence Day Chat with Presidential Grave Hunter…

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Happy Birthday America, or as Americans say, "Happy 4th of July!" Jennie and Dianne celebrate America's birthday with autho...

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June 27, 2024

Episode 190 - Life At The Cemetery: It's Not As Dead As You Think wit…

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" podcast, Jennie chats with Sandra K. Doyle, a former deathcare indu...

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June 20, 2024

Episode 189 "Cemeteries are for the Living": A Conversation with Auth…

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. “Cemeteries are for the living. They’re there for us, they’re there to comfort us, they’re there to educate us, they’re ther...

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June 13, 2024

Episode 188 - Charleston, South Carolina's Historic Churchyards with …

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Join Jennie and Dianne on the Ordinary Extraordinary Cemetery podcast as they delve into the hidden histories of Charleston,...

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June 6, 2024

Episode 187 - The Ordinary Extraordinary Breen Family

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Ask and ye shall receive! This episode was made possible because several listeners reached out to this week's guest letting ...

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May 30, 2024

Episode 186 - A Mother's Legacy and the Evolution of Life Forest Ceme…

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Join Jennie and Dianne on the Ordinary Extraordinary Cemetery podcast as they welcome Mel Bennett, founder of Life Forest ce...

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May 23, 2024

Episode 185 - Bravery Unseen: WWII's Extraordinary Women with Major G…

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 honored to be joined in this episode by Major General Mari K. Eder (U.S...

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May 16, 2024

Episode 184 - The Fort Smith Twister: A Tornado of Scandal and Drama

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 podcast, Jennie and Dianne are joined by returning guest Hugh Yemen a...

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May 9, 2024

Episode 183 - Cousin Jennies Part 2: Cornish Women of Mining Country …

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 continue their conversation with Lynette Webber, Cousin Jennies: Cornish Women of Mining Coun...

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May 2, 2024

Episode 182 - Cousin Jennies Part 1: Cornish Women of Mining Country …

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. This week, buckle up for part one of a riveting tale as Jennie and Dianne team up with Lynette Webber, an expert who has ded...

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April 25, 2024

Episode 181 - Death's Garden Revisited with Author Loren Rhoads

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. "I hope the adventures in this book inspire you to explore a cemetery. It’s good for the cemetery—and I promise it will be g...

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April 18, 2024

Episode 180 - Whispers From The Tomb: A Tale of True Love

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