The Ordinary, Extraordinary Cemetery

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. It's December and that means for many people a month long celebration of winter festivities as we approach the end of another year. One of those celebrations is, of course, Christmas! In this episode Jennie and Dianne will begin with a visit to the grave of Hetty Green, often called "...

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Jennie and Dianne discuss the founding of the oldest cemetery in Colorado Springs, Colorado.  Evergreen Cemetery as well as Colorado Springs will be celebrating their 150th anniversary in 2021! It is a cemetery that is near and dear to Dianne's heart as she has spent the past 20 years volu...

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Jennie and Dianne begin this episode in Oak Grove Cemetery in Saint Marys, Georgia, but to tell the story of the Tomb of Acadians which can be found in this charming cemetery, they must travel back to 1755 and the settlement of Acadie in what is now Nova Scotia, Canada. With a little help from...

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Jennie and Diane speak with Ryan M. Seidemann, lawyer, archeologist, anthropologist, professor, and  cemeterian as he tells the true story of the U.S. Marshalls and Judge Issac Parker (often known as the Hangin' Judge) at Fort Smith, Arkansas from the 1870's through the 1890's. H...

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Did you know that to be buried facing West is symbolic for facing freedom? When is it appropriate to cry for a deceased loved one in Irish tradition? What does it mean when stones and coins are left on gravesites? Find out the answers to these questions along with Jennie and Dianne as they expl...

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Join Dianne and Jennie as they "road trip" from the West coast to the East coast of the United States seeking out ordinary, extraordinary cemeteries that may or may not be haunted. They will be visiting the graves sites in Oregon, California, Idaho, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas,...

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Jennie and Dianne return to Central City, CO to explore the hidden mountain gem that is Bald Mountain Cemetery. They also find out what happened to Central City and Gilpin County in the years after the 1859 Gold Rush through the eyes and poetry of local miner Pete Redmond. Come with us to the O...

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Join Dianne and Jennie as they tell the story of Hugh and Levinia Champion, a couple who married, had children, and died in Central City, CO during the Colorado gold rush that began in 1859. This is the story of ordinary people living in an extraordinary time and  place. You will visit their ho...

Send us a text! We love hearing from listeners. If you'd like a response, please include your email. Meet taphophiles (cemetery lovers) Jennie and Dianne as they discuss their love for cemeteries, talk cemetery history, and even share a bit of classic literature from Nathaniel Hawthorne. It's the Ordinary, Extraordinary Cemetery! Where every death had a life, and every life had a story. ...