TWILIGHT MAGIC IN FORKS
For the fans, Forks is a magical place where the Twilight world comes to life. Fans visit Forks by the hundreds. Their local economy has been boosted from the visitors and it is very much needed.
Fork’s “Twilight”-inspired turn has been nothing short of magical, Marcia Bingham, executive director of the Chamber of Commerce, says.“We’ve probably had more than 100 people a day,” says Bingham, who has eagerly watched as van after van of giddy readers — mostly female — pull up in front of the town’s visitors center.
For many fans, the line where reality ends and imagination begins is starting to blur, says Michael Gurling, who caught inspiration from the tourism boom and started his own Twilight Tours.
After enlisting a few locals, he asked for help in picking out houses that could serve as stand-ins for the book’s famous Fork’s stops: Bella and Edward’s houses, a field where vampires play baseball. Other locations, such as the police station, where Bella’s father works, and the hospital, where Edward’s father is a doctor, play their own parts. They chipped in, providing cruisers near which fans may take pictures and reserving a spot for “Dr. Cullen” in the parking lot.
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Every store in Forks sells t-shirts. I just might have to visit there some day. Have you gone to Forks yet?
