Today we take a moment for our annual reflection on some of what we are grateful for, here at Civil War Tails.

2025 marks ten years of Civil War Tails Diorama Museum. It may not seem long, but most small businesses do not survive the first two years. For those who do, it often takes about five years to turn a profit. This Thanksgiving, we are grateful for all of you who have helped our museum not only survive but thrive!

As we look back over our journey, we are grateful to God for how He worked all the pieces to fall into place:

• guiding us to see the listing for this building, in the location we thought would be ideal (Baltimore Street)
• giving us parents who supported our crazy idea and who have helped us every step of the way to make the museum possible
• bringing the Washington Post and NPR to our museum in Spring 2016, after we opened on Labor Day weekend 2015 (talk about getting the word out quickly!)
• continuing to bring interviewers for articles, podcasts, and websites, and
• continuing to bring us you! Word-of-mouth is a wonderful resource, and we are deeply grateful to each of you who has told (or cajoled) a family member or friend to visit us. The best parts of our work here are to see the joy it brings you, the way that our dioramas help you to piece together the history you have just learned on battlefield tours, and the way children (and adults) are inspired to create their own dioramas or to study history.

Thank you for ten great years (yes, including 2020), and here’s to many more together!

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!