Episodes

April 27, 2023

Episode 132 - The Independent Order of Odd Fellows: From Its Origins …

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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April 20, 2023

Episode 131 - Under the Stone: Early Women Doctors in Evergreen Cemet…

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Jennie and Dianne are joined this week by special guest, author and historian Doris McCraw, who wrote the book "Under the St...

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April 13, 2023

Episode 130 - "Corpse for Sale: The Burke and Hare Murders of 1828"

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. This week Jennie and Dianne stray from the cemetery to explore the gruesome and shocking details of the Burke and Hare murde...

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April 6, 2023

Episode 129 - The Shroud of Turin: Legend, Science and Faith

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March 30, 2023

Episode 128 - Ordinary Extraordinary Women: Uncovering the Hidden Sto…

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Jennie and Dianne celebrate the last week of Women's History Month by revisiting some past interviews with women who have re...

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March 23, 2023

Episode 127 - A Tale of Two Women: Molly Brown and Louise Sneed Hill

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 celebrate Women's History Month as they explore the lives and legacies of two women who h...

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March 16, 2023

Episode 126 - Salem Witch Hysteria Part 3

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 explore the aftermath of the Salem Witch Trials in part three of their series. Discover what ...

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March 9, 2023

Episode 125 - Salem Witch Hysteria Part 2

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 ...

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March 2, 2023

Episode 124 - Salem Witch Hysteria Part 1

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...

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Feb. 23, 2023

Episode 123 - For Love of the Little Ones

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 share heartwarming stories of love for children. The first story takes us back to the Gre...

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Feb. 16, 2023

Episode 122 - "How Do I Love Thee...Beyond the Grave?"

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." Happy belated Valentine's Day! In this episode Jennie and Dianne are continuing...

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Feb. 9, 2023

Episode 121 - For Love of Mules and Horses

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Jennie and Dianne kick off a month of love as they delve into the fascinating bond between humans and their beloved equine c...

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Feb. 2, 2023

Episode 120 - The Men Who Created Groundhog Day

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. "This is one time where television really fails to capture the true excitement of a large squirrel predicting the weather.​"...

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Jan. 26, 2023

Episode 119 - Whitehall Cemetery (Burial Ground) in Mystic, Connectic…

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Whitehall cemetery, also called Whitehall burial ground or Whitehall graveyard, is the oldest burial ground in Mystic, Conne...

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Jan. 18, 2023

Episode 118 Say What? A Cemetery Q and A Part 2

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Dianne and Jennie continue to answer your questions in this second Q and A installment of the Ordinary Extraordinary Cemeter...

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Jan. 11, 2023

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...

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Dec. 29, 2022

Episode 116 - Christmas; Or the Good Fairy: A Harriet Beecher Stowe C…

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Dec. 22, 2022

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...

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Dec. 15, 2022

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...

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Dec. 8, 2022

Episode 113 - The Grave of Alfred Nobel and the Story of His Life

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Dec. 1, 2022

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...

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Nov. 24, 2022

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...

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Nov. 17, 2022

Episode 110 - Death and the Puritans

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Nov. 10, 2022

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...

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