A distinctive, squirrel-skin hat seen around town is the result of collaboration by a group of friends and a lesson about use of wild critters.
The hat is sewn with the hides of nine squirrels that Haines sixth-graders Charlie Bower, Ketch Jacobson, Mori Hays and Dawson Evenden shot with pellet guns. They skinned the squirrels and ate them, then cured the hides.
They didn’t plan it exactly that way. Bower said he just wanted to…
