A small sign in the driveway announces
the 'residents'.
Here is a note from Stephenie Meyer's website
on how and why she chose Forks for the setting.
''For my setting, I knew I needed
someplace ridiculously rainy. I turned to Google, as I do for all my
research needs, and looked for the place with the most rainfall in the
U.S. This turned out to be the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State.
I pulled up maps of the area and studied them, looking for something
small, out of the way, surrounded by forest... And there, right where
I wanted it to be, was a tiny town called "Forks." It couldn't
have been more perfect if I had named it myself. I did a Google image
search on the area, and if the name hadn't sold me, the gorgeous photographs
would have done the trick...In researching Forks, I discovered the La
Push Reservation, home to the Quileute Tribe. The Quileute story is
fascinating, and a few fictional members of the tribe quickly became
intrinsic to my story.'
So that was it - our own tour of Twilight. It was fun to see these places
and now when I read the book I'll be able to imagine a lot of the locales.
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