From the Olean Time's Herald comes an article about Fr. Claude Franklin's extensive nativity set.

OLEAN — They say it takes a village to raise a child, and it looks like all of Bethlehem is present for the birth of Christ in the Nativity scene at St. Joseph’s Maronite Catholic Church.

What began as the personal collection of Father Claude Franklin, pastor at St. Joseph’s, with the primary manger figures has expanded to more than 40 humans, several dozen animals and a small town’s worth of buildings and structures.