Don Oldenburg
Special to USA TODAY
When journalist Stephen Kurczy began traveling from New York City into the West Virginia backcountry in 2017, he was convinced he had found a modern-day Walden – an oasis unspoiled by the clamor of the digital era. Wary of the tyranny of today’s non-stop connectivity, he hadn’t owned a cell phone for a decade and had high hopes Green Bank, W.Va., would live up to its billing as “The Quietest Town in America.”
In this intriguing book “The Quiet Zone: Unraveling the Mystery of a Town Suspended in Silence” (Dey Street Books, 336 pp., ★★★ out of four), Kurczy confesses: “… It did not occur to me that a community bathed in quiet could be anything but idyllic.
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