IN THE TOP LEFT corner of Vermont is the Northeast Kingdom, three high, cold counties on the edge of America, where Walt Driscoll is under permanent observation.
Glass eyes are watching him. “We do fish,” he says. “A lot of fish. Deer heads, moose heads, bear rugs, bobcats, beaver, ducks, grouse, turkeys. We pretty much do anything.”
Taxidermy began as a teenage hobby, pursued through a correspondence course in Field & Stream magazine. But 29 years ago, Driscoll went professional, opening a store in Island Pond, a town of 821 human inhabitants. It was a smart move: Industry was abandoning the Northeast Kingdom, leaving it with hunting, tourism and the romantic name it acquired in the 1940s.
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