Welcome to Twin Peaks: Access Guide to the Town

Blue Rose Task Force: A Twin Peaks Obsessive Podcast

Your host John looks into Welcome to Twin Peaks: Access Guide to the Town— a collaboration between Lynch/Frost Productions and Access Press. This tongue-in-cheek travel guide does wonders for worldbuilding and is filled with just as many hints of lore as there are fun details about the town we all love. Come for the pie and coffee, and stay for the owls.

0:00:48 Intro
0:03:50 The book as an in-universe object
0:08:40 How the book came to be
0:11:40 Authors
0:12:53 When the book was made
0:17:20 Goals of the book
0:24:00 Advantages of the guide book format
0:25:32 Public reaction
0:28:38 David Lynch’s contributions
Maps and Early History
0:36:50 Twin Peaks maps
0:41:25 Early geology and first inhabitants
0:46:30 Town founders
0:50:20 Natural disasters
The Twin Peaks of 1989
0:55:16 The mill, fora and fauna
0:58:50 Places to go in Twin Peaks
1:01:08 What to do in Twin Peaks
1:05:40 Who you might meet
1:08:35 Character margin bios
Appealing to the Senses
1:18:45 The book, and style
1:21:13 Food and drink
1:26:25 The cherry pie recipe
1:28:42 The falls, radio and music
1:32:52 Owls
Lore and signs of a ‘91/‘92 Season 3
1:32:05 Theosophy connections and religions
1:33:55 Owl legends
1:41:04 Wood mistress Helga Brogger
1:42:10 The white moose legend
1:44:18 Owl Cave
1:46:20 Unguin Packed and her Field Observatory
1:50:30 The Passion Play
New Context after modern Twin Peaks media
1:56:30 Evolution, sound and frequencies
2:00:00 Ghostwood Prison
2:02:25 Connections to our world
2:03:35 Football: Perfect victory to unforgettable defeat
2:07:28 Chess to checkers

Article discussed in this episode:
The Only Twin Peaks Access Guide Resource You’ll Ever Need
https://25yearslatersite.com/2020/10/02/giant-sized-twin-peaks-access-guide/

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