Episodes
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Episode 65 - Wyuka Cemetery in Lincoln, Nebraska
Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Jennie and Dianne delve into the beauty and stories of Lincoln, Nebraska's Wyuka Cemetery; a cemetery with the distinction o...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...