Backstory: Skolnik says she has owned Nana’s Niche & Corner for 23 years and over the past few decades, it has gone through a few different iterations. She said the store’s Michigan-themed room is popular: She notices customers often head straight back to that room.

While you’re here: Skolnik knows the town well, having lived here for more than 40 years. She said during the holidays, Milford looks like a town straight out of a Hallmark movie, with a town tree, a gazebo and holiday decorations around town. She said Milford has a Christmas parade every year — on the Saturday after Thanksgiving — along with a store window reveal day, where children pull wrapping paper off store windows to reveal the stores’ holiday window displays.

She recommended the kitchen store Acorn Farm, For Feets Sake for shoes, Blue Birch Outfitters for outdoor gear from brands like Patagonia and KÜHL, The Clothing Cove for women’s clothing, Your Nesting Place for home decor, After The Rain for its own line of “beautiful candles,” Legends of Time for Native American art and jewelry and the Village Toy Shoppe.

If you are hungry: She suggests Novella’s for pizza, Smoke Street for barbecue, Sayulita Cocina Mexicana, the bourbon bar Charlie’s Still on Main, Main Street Grill & Tavern and Pettibone.