A great time...a pain in the a..

This weekend is the Milford Memories Weekend, which is our "big event" of the year. Thousands of people come into Milford from all over the area to attend this arts and crafts show. It draws hundreds of vendors from all over the country who come to display their wares. It starts setting up on Thursday night and runs Friday through Sunday. It is a wonderful weekend for the Village, a great fund raiser for the Chamber of Commerce and a good time for everyone who attends. And, yes, it can be a royal pain in the behind, if you are a Milford local.

I only live three blocks from downtown - only two blocks from N. Milford Road. I'm on the "detour" route for all of the closures of Main St. in Milford - all of the parades, the festivals and, yes, Milford Memories. What that means is that for the next three days, I'll barely be able to get out of my own driveway. I;ll have people walking all over my lawn and I'll have beer crowd returning from the beer tent until all hours of the morning. From a locale's perspective events like this can be a real pain. But, we still love them. they help make Milford what it is - a real-life incarnation of Andy Griffith's Mayberry. I'll bet you can even find Aunt Bea down on Main St somewhere selling her famous apple pies and one of the church booths.

So, we "townies" or "Villagers" as we might be called will put up with the three days of traffic jams and noisy crowds and rowdy drunks all for the sake of a good time for the Village. We can do that because we get to think about the other 45 or so weekends a year ( we do have lots of parades) when it's just the sleepy little Milford that we all love so much. So, enjoy this weekend if you're planning to come over for Milford Memories. And if you'd like to see what it is that we love about the place, come back next weekend and give me a call - we'll stroll around the peaceful little Village that we locals love to call home. In the mean time, visit my www.MoveToMilford.com Web site and look at some of the virtual tours that are there.