The Ordinary, Extraordinary Cemetery
The Ordinary, Extraordinary Cemetery is a podcast for cemetery lovers, preservationists, and even those who've never walked among the graves. Join hosts Jennie and Dianne as they explore old cemeteries and learn the stories of those buried within their walls. After all, every death had a life, and every life had a story.
Episodes
294 episodes
Episode 394 - An Ordinary Extraordinary Repatriation with Ryan Seidemann
This week, our favorite forensic anthropologist Ryan Seidemann joins us to discuss his Ordinary Extraordinary role in one of the first repatriations of its kind in the United States.In 1871-1872, nineteen men and women of African descent...
Episode 293 - Love Gone Wrong
This week on the Ordinary Extraordinary Cemetery, Jennie and Dianne unearth a love story gone wrong in Southeastern Colorado that left more than one heart broken. Listen along as they learn about the Bishop brothers: one ended up six feet under...
Episode 292 - Death and Dying 101 with Ryan Seidemann: Episode 11
This week on the Ordinary Extraordinary Cemetery, Jennie and Dianne are joined by guest host Ryan Seidemann for a round of thought-provoking questions from his summer semester students at Arizona State University. Several of these questions are...
Episode 291- Some "Grave" Situations and Updates
This week on the Ordinary Extraordinary Cemetery podcast, Jennie and Dianne cover three difficult cases of desecration and loss.In Pennsylvania, a man is facing 496 counts after allegedly stealing over 100 sets of human remains from hist...
Beyond the Grave: Gothic Tales of the Gilded Age: Presented by Evergreen Heritage and The Ordinary Extraordinary Cemetery Podcast
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/beyond-the-grave-presents-gothic-tragedies-of-the-gilded-age-tickets-1997269261125?aff=oddtdtcreatorOctober 2nd and 3rd at Evergreen Cemetery in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Tours depart every 30 minute...
Episode 290 - Women's Professional Baseball: Celebrating the Future While Honoring the Past
72 years ago, the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League played its final game. Yesterday, women's professional baseball returned with the inaugural game of the Women's Pro Baseball League. On this episode of the Ordinary Extraordinary...
Episode 289 - Where The Columbines Grow: A Colorado Day Special
Happy Colorado Day! On August 1, 1876, Colorado became the 38th state admitted to the Union, thereby becoming the Centennial State. On this episode of the Ordinary Extraordinary Cemetery, Dianne and Jennie celebrate Colorado's 150th birthday wi...
Episode 288 - "Take the Back Roads" the life of Minnie Pearl
Howdy! This week on the Ordinary Extraordinary Cemetery podcast, Jennie and Dianne are joined by award-winning author and historian Mary Ellen Pethel, who shares the Ordinary Extraordinary story of Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon, or as most of the...
Episode 287 - The "Dirty Little Coward" and the Marshal's Badge
On this episode of The Ordinary Extraordinary Cemetery Podcast, Jennie and Dianne wander back in time to the wild west days of Old Colorado City, Colorado, to share the story of how "the dirty little coward who shot Mr. Howard" played a small p...
Episode 286 - Death and Dying 101 with Ryan Seidemann: Episode 10
This week on the Ordinary Extraordinary Cemetery podcast, inquiring minds want to know if sea burials of the past were just as solemn and religious as those on land, why post-mortem photos taken in the past were considered more respectable than...
Episode 285 - Ordinary Extraordinary America: A 4th of July Special
250 years ago, America was an idea. Today, it’s millions of stories! This week, we go back to a few of them we've covered on the Ordinary Extraordinary Cemetery podcast, beginning with Kurt Deion, who spent his childhood visiting president...
Episode 284: Nebraska City's Desk of Stone
You’re walking through a 170-year-old cemetery and find a tombstone that’s… a desk? Welcome to Wyuka Cemetery in Nebraska City. The city itself was founded in 1855 after the U.S. Army abandoned Fort Kearny just eight years earlier. Thanks to it...
Episode 283 - The Seamstresses of Liberty
Happy belated Flag Day! On this week’s Ordinary Extraordinary Cemetery podcast, Dianne and Jennie are honoring the women behind the American flag. You know Betsy Ross, but do you know Mary Pickersgill and Grace Wisher? Did Betsy Ross really mak...
Episode 282 - The Boy in the Boat: Drowned by Legend, Not by Water
In the previous episode of the Ordinary Extraordinary Cemetery podcast (#281), Dianne and Jennie explored Forest Hills Cemetery in Boston, Massachusetts and some of its most visited monuments including one often called, "The Boy in the Boat" wh...
Episode 281 - A Storybook Resting Place: Forest Hills Cemetery in Boston
Looking for things to do in Boston in addition to walking the Freedom Trail? Might we suggest visiting Forest Hills Cemetery in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood? This 275-acre historic cemetery, founded in 1848 and added to the National Register ...
Episode 280: Death and Dying 101 with Ryan Seidemann: Episode 9
This past Monday, men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice were remembered in Memorial Day tributes across the United States, and on this episode of the Ordinary Extraordinary Cemetery podcast Dianne and Jennie chat with Ryan Seidemann who...
Episode 279 - In the Wake of Golgotha: Judas & Pilate Reborn with Daniel Grace
This week, Jennie sits down with author Daniel Grace to discuss his new novel In the Wake of Golgotha. The conversation weaves together ancient betrayal and modern violence through the intertwined lives of Judas and Pontius Pilate, reb...
Episode 278 - The Patron Saint of Moms: Erma Bombeck's Ordinary Extraordinary Life
Thirty years after her death, Erma Bombeck is still the patron saint of moms everywhere so it felt only fitting to celebrate her life and legacy with Mother's Day just around the corner. She wrote the messy, hilarious, heartwarming truth about ...
Episode 277 - Until You Know What You’re Looking For with Joy Giguere
Sometimes a chat with your local butcher can lead you down a very curious rabbit hole and that is exactly what happened to this week's returning guest, historian Joy Giguere, on this latest episode of the Ordinary Extraordinary Cemetery podcast...
Episode 276 - Pickett’s Charge Mystery: Where Is Richard B. Garnett Buried?
This week on the Ordinary Extraordinary Cemetery, Jennie and Dianne are joined by one of their favorite living historians MJ Henion, to unravel a Civil War mystery that still haunts historians today.Meet Brigadier General Richard B. Garnett...
Episode 275 - Rooted in Love: The Community of Holly Hill Memorial Park
When the 2008 recession upended Eric Anderson’s career, he never imagined the detour would lead to cemetery service. But that’s where he found work that truly mattered. After walking through personal loss herself, his wife Megan joined...
Episode 274 - Rewriting Bianca Capello: A Conversation With Author Gigi Berardi
On this episode of the Ordinary Extraordinary Cemetery podcast, Jennie and Dianne are joined by author Gigi Berardi to talk about "Bianca’s Cure", her fact-driven historical novel about Bianca Capello, who in real life was famed for her beauty,...
Episode 273 - A Few "Grave" Situations
This week, Jennie and Dianne are "digging" into some truly Ordinary Extraordinary recent news stories from cemeteries across the US. First up, Lafayette, Colorado, where a local cemetery has run out of burial space, leaving families in a lurch ...
Episode 272 - Forgotten Female Felons with Sherry Skye Stuart
Just as Women's History Month wraps up, Jennie and Dianne chat with author Sherry Sky Stuart about her fascinating new book, Forgotten Female Felons. Skye resurrects the stories of women locked up in the Colorado Territorial Prison, kicking off...