Natural Talent
Oh my gawd, how am I going to tell my friends?” says Marissa Jonke, impersonating her mother’s Queens accent when Jonke broke the news that she was becoming a taxidermist. “They’re going to say, ‘What, is she a serial killer?’”
Jonke has gotten used to the assumptions people make about her chosen profession and its practitioners. Since her 2019 opening of Styx River Taxidermy in Jay, she says she can’t count the number of times people have walked into the showroom and, seeing the slight
