The quiet zone : unraveling the mystery of a town suspended in silence / Stephen Kurczy.
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.
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
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062945495
- ISBN: 0062945491
- Physical Description: 326 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow, [2021]
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue: "To anyone who will listen" -- Quiet search -- Quiet discovery -- Quiet end? -- Epilogue: "Masters of social distancing". |
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Subject: | Green Bank (W. Va.) > Social life and customs. Technology > Social aspects > West Virginia > Green Bank. Kurczy, Stephen > Travel > West Virginia > Green Bank. |
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Albright Memorial Library | 975.487 KURCZY (Text) | 50686016079860 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Bernville Area Community Library | 975.4 KUR (Text) | 33249023880234 | Non-fiction | Available | - |
Cambria County Library | 975.487 K965q (Text) | 85131001774018 | CACM Non-Fiction | Available | - |
Emmaus Public Library | 303.483 KURZ (Text) | 36446002045022 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Gettysburg Library | 303.483 KURCZY (Text)
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Althea Schildknecht Named Endowment, 2021
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Guthrie Memorial Library: Hanover's Public Library | Adults 975.4 KUR Nonfiction (Text)
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Plated 2021: In Memory of Glenn E. Bair
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34007002440969 | Adult Area | Available | - |
Juniata County Library | 975.4 KUR (Text) | 39640100618287 | JUNM Non-Fiction | Available | - |
Lower Macungie Library | 975.487 KUR (Text) | 33400001524837 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Mason-Dixon Public Library | Adults 975.4 KUR Nonfiction (Text) | 34262000761342 | Main Room | Available | - |
New Castle Public Library | 303.483 Kurczy (Text)
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Purchased with Funds Provided by the Friends of the Library.
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31902005435482 | NWCM Non-Fiction | Available | - |