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Under sunny and appropriately
crisp skies, the fifth annual Christmas in Little Washington got off to a perfect start this year with Sunday's Christmas Parade, a too-brief passage of all things bright and - judging by the expressions of paradegoers young and old - appropriately magical.
By the time Santa - his sled a 1931 Chrysler - set up shop at Stonyman Gourmet Farmer’s gazebo at 1:45 p.m., the crowds along Gay and Main streets and Warren Avenue were captivated by, among others: George the “Bear” and Peanut the Potbellied Pig; llamas from Lazy S, Freestate and West Wind farms; Friesians and Percherons and miniature donkeys, plus a Shepherd’s Play cast with “camel”; “Desperate Horsewives” and firefighting elves; Washington Mayor Eugene Leggett and First Lady Clarissa Leggett in a 1926 Cadillac; Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Cub Scouts; and
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