Episodes

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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Aug. 19, 2021

Episode 46 - 5 Mysterious Graves

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 visit five mysterious graves located throughout the United States. From the grave of a fe...

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Aug. 12, 2021

Episode 45 - The Irish Miners of Leadville, Colorado and Their Forgot…

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 James Walsh who shares the stories and histories of the Irish miners who went ...

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Aug. 5, 2021

Episode 44 - A Gold Mine, A Pocket Watch and a Heart of Gold

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Find out how a gold mine, a pocket watch, and a letter bring the past to life and bring a family back together. In this epis...

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July 29, 2021

Episode 43 - St. John's Historic Cemetery in Thibodaux, Louisiana

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Jennie and Dianne enjoy a delightful conversation with three gentlemen who have been tasked with helping to preserve and res...

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July 22, 2021

Episode 42 - John Dillinger's Grave at Crown Hill Funeral Home & Ceme…

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. "These few dollars you lose here today are going to buy you stories to tell your children and great-grandchildren. This coul...

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July 15, 2021

Episode 41 - Exploring Underwater Cemeteries

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Take a dive with Jennie and Dianne as they explore two of the world's underwater cemeteries. Their first stop will be a ceme...

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July 8, 2021

Episode 40 - Exploring the Wit and Wisdom of Epitaphs

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Jennie and Dianne wander through graveyards across the United States and even the world exploring the wit and wisdom of epit...

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July 1, 2021

Episode 39 - Explosion in the Mine Part 2 - Hanna, Wyoming

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. In this episode Jennie and Dianna continue their visit to the cemeteries in Hanna and Carbon, Wyoming where more than 200 me...

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June 24, 2021

Episode 38 - Explosion in the Mine - Hanna, Wyoming

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 go back in time to revisit the tragic day of June 30th, 1903 when the Union Pacific Coal Comp...

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June 17, 2021

Episode 37 - A chat with Jeff Belanger of the New England Legends Pod…

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Jennie and Dianne chat with Jeff Belanger of the New England Legends podcast. They talk about visiting cemeteries, the impor...

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