Title The quiet zone : unraveling the mystery of a town suspended in silence / Stephen Kurczy.

Publication Info.	New York, NY : Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow, [2021]
	©2021

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Edition	First edition.
Description	326 pages : map ; 24 cm
Note	Maps on end pages.
Contents	Prologue: "To anyone who will listen" -- Quiet search -- Quiet discovery -- Quiet end? -- Epilogue: "Masters of social distancing".
Summary	An award-winning journalist takes us deep into the Appalachian Mountains where the last truly quiet town of America exists and where its residents live a life free from constant digital connectivity, challenging us to rethink the role of tech in our lives.
Note	Includes index.
Summary	Deep in the Appalachian Mountains, Green Bank, West Virginia, is a place at once futuristic and old-fashioned. It is home to the Green Bank Observatory, where astronomers search the depths of the universe using the latest technology. With a ban on all devices emanating radio frequencies that might interfere with the observatory's telescopes, residents live a life free from constant digital connectivity; schoolchildren go without WiFi or iPads. Kurcxy introduces readers to a tech buster patrolling the area for illegal radio waves; "electrosensitives" who claim that WiFi is deadly; a sheriff's department with a string of unsolved murder cases dating back decades; a camp of neo-Nazis plotting their resurgence from a nearby mountain hollow; and ordinary citizens seeking a simpler way of living. Kurczy asks: Is a less connected life desirable? Is it even possible? -- adapted from jacket
Subject	Green Bank (W. Va.) -- Social life and customs.
	Technology -- Social aspects -- West Virginia -- Green Bank.
	Kurczy, Stephen -- Travel -- West Virginia -- Green Bank.
	TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies.
	Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
	Technology -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01145202
	Travel. (OCoLC)fst01155558
	West Virginia -- Green Bank. (OCoLC)fst01202935
Genre/Form	Travel writing.
ISBN	9780062945495 (hardcover)
	0062945491 (hardcover)

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