First aired June 22, 2023:

Two sisters combined their love of historically accurate dioramas, the Civil War, and clay-making to pen an ode to the US in one of the most historically significant cities in the United States. They even purchased a building with deep roots in the aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg to bring the stories of the dead to life. But, the clay characters aren't human - they are a different species entirely telling the accurate tale of the bloodiest battle of the civil war.

A diorama of the Civil War Cat Museum: https://youtu.be/N1yc1UFnVYY

I got today’s information from my friend Lydia who sent a Tik Tok about the Civil War Cat’s museum, which is actually called Civil War Tails

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/gettysburg-address/

https://civilwartails.com/the-homestead/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1yc1UFnVYY

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/theres-a-museum-for-everything-even-civil-war-battles--depicted-by-cats/2016/05/26/1f8c4674-1d30-11e6-8c7b-6931e66333e7_story.html

https://civilwartails.com/

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/civil-war-tails-at-the-homestead-diorama-museum

https://www.achs-pa.org/news-events/achsblog.html/article/2020/07/08/national-soldiers-orphans-homestead

https://www.nps.gov/gett/index.htm

The full text of the Gettysburg Address, took up less space on a page than my 5th grader’s 5 paragraph essay, is at:

https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.24404500/?st=text

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