Twin Peaks: Access Guide to the Town is a 1991 book by Gregg Almquist, Tricia Brock, Robert Engels, Lise Friedman and Harley Peyton. It is written as a visitor's guide to the town of Twin Peaks, Washington, telling some of the history and attractions of the town.
Contents[]
The travel guide was made by request in Andrew Packard's will, in which he had Richard Saul Wurman assigned to be the book's editor-in-chief. The categories in which the guide covers are as follows:
- History
- The Old Opera House
- First Inhabitants
- First White Men
- Packard Sawmill
- The Sawmill Then
- The Sawmill Now
- The Joys of Whittling
- Wood Mistress
- Flora
- Ferns and Flowers
- Pines and Firs
- Fauna
- Animal Life
- Taxidermy
- The White Moose
- Fishing
- Geology and Weather
- In the Beginning
- Weather Watch
- Points of Interest
- White Tail Falls
- Owl Cave
- The Grange
- The Train Graveyard
- Events
- Passion Play
- Packard Timber Games
- Calendar of Events
- Lumberjack Feast
- Dining
- Cherry Pie
- Doughnuts
- Dining Out
- Lodging
- Great Northern Hotel
- Bed & Breakfasts
- Sports
- Football
- Fashion
- Religious Worship
- Transportation
- Town Life
- Twin Peaks Gazette
- Phone Book
- Timber Players
- Black Lake Cemetery
- Chamber of Commerce
- Government
- Proposed Prison
Behind the scenes[]
Lynch was the jacket photograph and brought Tim & Tom's Taxi-dermy picture.[1]
This was the only time Richard Saul Wurman was asked to make a book and he plans, as any of his books, to never release the Access Guide again. The book took about six months to be made and the maps were made from scratch, most of the locations and roads being made after Richard Saul Wurman's family and friends.[1] Indeed, his wife is Gloria Nagy, his four children are Joshua, Reven T.C., Vanessa and Tony, his frequent Access Guide typographer is Linda Lenhoff. On the maps can be found: Richard Saul Woods, Gloria's Grove, Josh Alley, Reven Rd., Vanessa's Landing, Tony Ave., Lenhoff Avenue.
Wurman's team was the one to come up with the cut fingers and whittling joke and Wurman considers that Frost was more open to suggestions than Lynch.[1]
Mark Frost re-read the Access Guide as inspiration for The Secret History of Twin Peaks.[2]
Appearances[]
- Individuals
- John Jacob Astor
- Jared Back
- Vitus Behring
- Sarah Bernhardt
- T. Billings
- Belinda Bondace
- Hugo Boot
- Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo
- Enrico Caruso
- Charlie Chaplin
- Peter Cherikof
- Francis Drake
- Elizabeth I
- John Hanford
- Elsa Eisenbuch
- Sergei Eisenstein
- Benjamin Horne
- Brulitha Horne
- J.J. Horne
- Orville Horne
- Meriwether Lewis
- Angus MacDowell
- Alexander MacKenzie
- Robert Mapplethorpe
- Catherine Martell
- Nealith Martell
- Pete Martell
- Pixie Martell
- Rudolph Martell
- Milford Mertz
- Douglas Milford
- Dwayne Milford
- Moses Millhouse
- Sid Millhouse
- Mussorgsky
- Andrew Packard
- Ezekial Packard
- James Packard
- Josie Packard
- Mavis Packard
- Unguin Packard
- Ivan Pritikoff
- Pushkin
- Dominick Renault
- Bessie Spoon
- E. Targaski
- Crosby Truman
- Mark Twain
- Oscar Wilde
- Richard Saul Wurman
- Locations
- Alaska
- Alberta
- Angel Avenue
- Arizona
- Asia
- Bering Strait
- Big Ed's Gas Farm
- Black Lake
- Black Lake Cemetary
- Black Lake Dam
- Blue Pine Lodge
- Bookhouse
- British Columbia
- Canada
- Cape Disappointment
- Cedar Street
- Chilliwack
- Church Lane
- Columbia River
- County Museum
- County Road J
- Dead Dog Farm
- Double R Diner
- Douglas Street
- England
- Enthwhistle Street
- Europe
- Falls Avenue
- Fort Clatsop
- Frost Avenue
- The Grange
- Great Northern Highway
- Great Northern Hotel
- Harvard University
- Highway 21
- Horne's Department Store
- Horne's General Store
- Iceland
- Idaho
- Josh Alley
- Juneau
- Kayenti
- Kettle Falls
- Lakeside Drive
- Lenhoff Avenue
- Listening Post Alpha
- Lolo Trail
- London
- Low Town
- Lower Twin Park
- Lynch Road
- Main Street
- Maple Avenue
- Martell Mill
- Milford Place
- Mine Hollow
- Minnesota
- Missoula
- Montreal
- Moon Valley Road
- New Opera House
- New York City
- New York City Museum of Natural History
- Old Mill Road
- Old Opera House
- Old Unguin's Field
- Oregon
- Overseas Press
- Owl Cave
- Owl Street
- Pacific Ocean
- Packard Sawmill
- Palm Springs
- Paris
- Pearl Lake Road
- Phoenix
- Pine Terrace
- Pinewood Court
- Puget Sound
- Reven Road
- Roadhouse
- Russia
- San Francisco
- Seattle
- Snow Street
- Sparkwood
- Spokane
- St. Louis
- Stanford University
- Steeplejack Road
- Tanner Road
- Thor's Trading Post
- Thrasher Avenue
- Timber Lane
- Tipton-on-Trent
- Tony Avenue
- Twin Peaks
- Twin Peaks Sheriff's Department
- Twin Peaks Town Hall
- United States
- Upper Twin Park
- Washington
- White Tail Falls
- Yale University
- Organizations
- Objects
- Backstop
- Beaver
- Beaver hat
- The Battleship Potemkin
- La Boheme
- Camille
- Coffee
- Donut
- Formidable or Fake
- French Explorers: Enigmas in Fur
- The Function of Neurosis in Snoqualmie Culture
- The Gold Rush
- Great Circus Tragedies
- Huckleberry
- Huckleberry Finn
- Little Scottie
- O Twin Peaks, My Land, My Home
- Owl
- Pagliacci
- Paper birch
- Rigoletto
- Tosca
- White cedar
- Events
- Smallish Earthquake of 1905
- Terrible Fire of 1896
- Treaty of Vladivostok