Milford Memories…

The annual Milford Memories street festival is this weekend in Milford, Michigan. This event has grown over the few yeas that it has been run into one of the premier Michigan arts and crafts events and was actually ranked at number 75 out of the top 100 art and crafts shows nationwide in the Art and Craft 200 best issue for this years. Not bad for an event that started out as a humble little play that celebrated Milford’s history and which was staged in Central Park on a summer afternoon. The musical play about the history of Milford still exists and has been performed many times since.

Now it is a three-day street event that attracts hundreds of vendors from all over the country and which is expected to draw 250,000 visitors to Milford over the three day period. The traffic rerouting that is required and the congestion that results has caused a few locals to sourly refer to it as Milford Miseries, but they are in the minority. Most Milfordites get into the spirit of it, with many volunteering for various traffic management or other duties during the three days. The event is sponsored by the Huron Valley Chamber of Commerce, so all of the work done to put it on is done by volunteers.

There are plenty of events that are staged in conjunction with the street fair itself – musical events in several venues, a beer tent on Friday and Saturday night and a Civil War re-enactors camp that is set up during the event, complete with a canon that is set off in the morning at dawn and again at dusk. While there are no carnival rides there certainly is every variety of carnival food, from hot dos and brats to elephant ears. Venders sell everything from cheap stuff for the kids to relatively expense works of art.

So come on out to Milford this weekend. You can also stop by the Real Estate One office on the north end of the festival. We’ll have canopy set up in our parking lot, which is just north of the Flatiron Building and agents will be on duty to fill you in on all of the places that you could buy in Milford so that you could begin enjoying the Village lifestyle, too. There’s no better place to enjoy small town America than Milford and this weekend is just one of the many events and parades and concerts and goings-on that we have year around. Look for me in the crowd or at the Real Estate One office.