TODAYSHOW.COM VAMPIRE TOURISM BREATHES NEW LIFE INTO SMALL TOWN OF FORKS
TODAYSHOW.COM has an article about how the Twilight craze has sent thousands of visitors to their small town of Forks, Washington. A HUGE economic and tourism boost all because of a NY TIMES best seller ‘Twilight’ by Stephenie Meyer that knocked the Harry Potter series from their #1 ranking.
Now that the series is over, hardcore fans are doing whatever they can to live and breathe Twilight, including going to where it all took place which has become their mecca.
Pounding rain and heavy mist are constant in this timber town where logging’s decline left a graveyard of rusting timber mills and unemployment. Businesses shut down. Parts of the local high school were condemned. Families started to drift away.Until an unlikely cast of vampires breathed new life into the town.
“I fell in love with it,” says 18-year-old Samantha Cogar, who dragged her grandparents on a 2,500 mile roadtrip to Forks from Louisville, Kentucky, earlier this summer. “I can’t wait to go back.”
Cogar is one of thousands of visitors who have flocked to Forks in response to “Twilight,” the hottest series to hit shelves since “Harry Potter.” Set in Forks, on the gritty edge of the Olympic Mountain Range, the books have captured the hearts of readers around the world.
In a town framed by towering Douglas fir, hemlock and spruce and the occasional western red cedar, where rough, blue collar edges are tangible, the unexpected attention seems to be a second chance for the economy. Inspired by a world of make-believe, “Twilight” fans are bringing the town back to life.
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source= bellaandedward.com
