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Saturday, November 18th, 2006

Photo by Shelley Grieshop/The Daily Standard

Don Barber leads one of his "babies," as he calls the camels he raises on his rural Mendon farm. The Barber family take several of their animals including llamas and goats to area live nativity programs.

Related online story:

Animal mania and the Christmas spirit

MENDON - Noah of biblical fame would feel right at home on the Barber farm.

Creatures big and small are plentiful in pens and barns near the winding Neptune-Mendon roadway. But this time of year, it's the family's camels that steal the spotlight at live Christmas nativity scenes. [More]

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