Marlboro, Vermont - Taxidermy museum, albino critters

This small natural history museum is one of Vermont's little known wonders. It is primarily the taxidermy collection of a man named Lumen Nelson who lived in the area from 1873-1966. It contains oevr 650 taxidermy specimens in small dioramas. The are several oddities in the collection including about a dozen albinos (groundhog, red squirrel, gray squirrel, robin, barn swallow, deer, porcupine, etc.). They also have a doe with horns and three extinct birds (passenger pigeon, heath hen, and eskimo curlew). The museum now has some live animal exhibits including owls and hawks. [Ed Metcalfe, 03/12/2006]