NOVEMBER 6TH, 1983
HAWKINS, INDIANA
The worst thing that’s ever happened in the last four years is when an owl attacked Eleanor Gillespie’s head because it thought her hair was a nest.
Like Astoria, Oregon and Eerie, Indiana before it, the sleepy town of Hawkins is an important character in it’s own right. From the quaint suburban sprawl to the not-quite-right woods, watching the boys ride through the scenery on their BMXs feels at once wholly authentic and saccharinely nostalgic.