If four novels, one movie and another in the works (not to mention countless blogs, fanzines and intrusive photographs of the stars) aren’t enough to crave your appetite for all things Twilight, fear not! For a mere $300 you can now purchase your very own piece of the Twilight experience with a visit to Forks, Washington - the actual location where Edward and Bella’s forbidden love was born! The setting for Stephanie Meyer’s saga and film location, this former logging town (population 3,175), just concluded their first ever
Summer School in Forks: A Twilight Symposium – “the only literary symposium, anywhere, dedicated to Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga.” Besides providing fans with an opportunity to buy lots more Twilight crap (I mean, “merchandise”), highlights of the weekend-long event included: An Orientation Dinner with Forks' real-life "Chief Swan", a Twilight movie “riffing”, two live podcasts with “The Bloodsuckers” (aka “The Girls Necks Door”), a "field trip" to a bonfire at First Beach in La Push, and the first ever "Bella Swan Memorial Volleyball Tournament"! And as if that weren’t already enough, participants were invited to attend an “actual, REAL Prom” in the Forks High Gym, with performances by three of the original Twilight bands and a crowning of the Summer School in Forks Prom King and Queen! After a weekend of festivities as well as serious discussion/dissection of the Twilight series, attendees were finally awarded a diploma at their very own “graduation ceremony.” Keynote speakers included such nerds as Kaleb Nation of twilightguy.com and Larry Carroll of MTV's Twilight Tuesdays, who stated, "As the line between fiction and fact continued to blur, the Twilighters exchanged hugs and phone numbers, taking home the memories of a lifetime along with their diplomas." ….a lifetime, maybe – or at least until they all reach puberty.
