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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
nannikinork N«w» Staff Writer
Rick Talley has brought the outdoors inside to his living room in the little cottage he rents back in Harris Hollow.
In a scene from a Walt Disney cartoon, two squirrels scamper up a wall while a crow wearing a bright blue bow around its neck perches on the bookcase it shares with a mallard and another squirrel.
On the tall kitchen divider, a second crow spreads its wings, ready to take off.
There are no squeaks; quacks, chatters and caws from this array of wildlife. All pause silently, captured lifelike by Rick’s skill as a taxidermist.
Nineteen-year-old Talley’s work is an example of the ingenuity many young people have shown in creating career opportunities in the country. He also illustrates the difficulties of trying to fit round pegs into the square holes of a rigidly structured educational system.
Originally from Atlanta, Ga., Rick moved here with his parents three years ago and enrolled at Rappahannock County High School. Problems arose when a part-time job that called for late hours began to interfere with school.
Suspended for truancy, Rick was told that he had to sign a contract, agreeing to pay S10 for every day he missed without a doctor’s note as a condition for reinstatement.
“On top of that, they were
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