In a calmer spring—when facts weren't so slippery, social media so noxious, the country so ready to combust—what happened in Forks, Washington, on June 3 might have been a perfect plot for a ...

"Twilight" came out 20 years ago, and I visited the place the series is set in: Forks, Washington. I appreciated that the town was so close to Olympic National Park, and I found it charming.

Nestled in the northwest tip of Washington state is an idyllic town hoping a group of angsty teenage vampires will provide some much-needed relief to its pandemic-stricken community. Forks ...