Milton Resident Houses Baby Lambs Each Easter

Every year since 1979 Frak Giuliano, a now retired superintendent of the Milton Public Schools, has cared for lambs at his Milton home around Easter. The two to three week old pair of lambs are popular with neighborhood children, who often visit to bottle feed them.

Giuliano said he buys two lambs each year and keeps them for about a month before giving them back to the farmer he purchased them from.

The lambs, which are housed in Giuliano's front yard at 61 School Street, require bottle feeding. This makes them even more endearing to local kids and Giuliano's grandchildren.

"The neighborhood children just love it," Giuliano said.

Before moving to Milton, Giuliano had a small farm in Franklin in the 1970s. Having had lambs then, he decided to create a very scaled down farm each spring.Besides being popular with children, Giuliano also parks a chair near the lambs and relaxes as they nibble grass.

Giuliano sees the tradition as a nice departure from the usual ways to mark Easter for children.

"It's much better than buying a chocolate bunny from them to celebrate," Giuliano said.