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The Quiet Zone

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by Stephen Kurczy


  Sagan, Carl, 29–30, 175

  Santomero, Nancy, 193, 194–200

  Saslow, Eli, 276

  satellite internet, 290–91

  Savage, Randy, 165

  Schou, Bert, 77–78, 152, 155, 255

  Schou, Diane, 73–78, 251, 285; community frustration with, 148–51; electromagnetic hypersensitivity of, 73–78, 147–51, 152, 155, 267; nocebo effect and, 155; skepticism of some electrosensitives, 158; Sugar Grove and, 69

  Schou, Paul, 77–78

  Scientific Committee on Frequency Allocations for Radio Astronomy and Space Science, 117–18

  Seielstad, George, 245

  Sellers, David, 206

  Senate Committee on Appropriations, 43, 243, 244–46

  Senate Special Committee on Aging, 18

  Seneca State Forest, 170

  SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence), 29–30, 43–44, 48, 288–89

  sex cult, 216–18

  Shallows, The (Carr), 42

  Shawnee Indians, 25–26

  Sheepsquatch, 61

  Sheets, Beatrice Blackhurst, 28–29

  Sheets, Bob, 24–26; collapse of telescope, 241; on conspiracy theories, 62–63; COVID-19 pandemic and, 302, 303; culture of Pocahontas, 71–72; cutting down a Christmas tree, 282; history of Green Bank, 28–29; history of Pocahontas, 25–26; lack of WiFi, 296–97; on “mountain justice,” 198–99; RFI at house of, 46; Thanksgiving of 2018, 239–40, 248–49, 298

  Sheets, Elaine, 24, 72, 241, 296–97; Thanksgiving of 2018, 239–40, 248–49, 298

  Sheets, Jed, 239–40, 297

  Sheetz, 167

  Shenandoah National Park, 260

  Shepherd University, 56

  Siddhartha Gautama, 79

  Simmons, Eugene: double homicide of 1957, 224–25; on the hippies, 98, 218; National Alliance and Pierce, 137; Rainbow Gathering murders of 1980, 195–96, 199–200, 201–2; suicide of Roberts, 256–57

  Simmons, John, 113, 150–51

  Sims, David, 126

  Sins of My Father (Pierce), 137–38

  Sisters in Hate (Darby), 140–41

  60 Minutes (TV series), 128, 195

  Sizemore, Hanna, 302–3

  Sizemore, Nathaniel “Dane,” 176–78

  Sizemore, Wesley, 45–48, 49–50, 84, 113–14, 119–20, 176–77

  sleep deprivation and cellphone usage, 83

  SMART Board, 166

  smartphones. See cellphones

  Smith, Hanna, 175–78

  Smith, Joseph, 136, 202–3

  Smith, Mike, 175–76, 215

  Smith, Philip, 53

  Smith, Walter, 223–26, 228–29, 230, 231

  Smith College, 176

  Smith & Wesson, 3, 125, 262

  Snowden, Edward, 57

  Snowshoe Mountain Resort, 86, 112, 161, 186, 282, 290

  Social Security accounts and cell phones, 18

  Socrates, 19

  solar storms, 66–67

  Solliday, Daniel, 115–16

  Solliday, Mathias, 33, 115, 170–71, 301

  Southern Poverty Law Center, 91, 94, 106–7, 137, 138, 143, 269, 278

  Space Shuttle, 33

  SpaceX, 290–91

  Spirits Evolving, 262

  Spock, Benjamin, 213

  Spruce Knob, 27

  Staggers, Harley O., 54–55

  Stanga, Leslie, 259–60, 261, 263–64

  Starlight Café, 116

  Star Trek (TV series), 109

  Station 2 Restaurant, 8, 11–13, 152, 155, 184, 286

  Stauffer, Kathryn, 116, 256

  Stein, Jill, 76

  STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education, 89, 170–71

  Stephanopoulos, George, 104

  Stormfront, 139, 276

  Stranger Things (TV series), 63, 176

  stroke and human-made noise, 81

  Subutex, 272–28

  Sugar Grove, West Virginia, 67–67

  Sugar Grove Station, 54–59, 242, 288; conspiracy theories about, 61–62, 64–67, 68–70

  suicide, 83, 154

  Sullivan, Andrew, 80

  Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age, A (Helfand), 18–19

  Table Mountain Field Site and Radio Quiet Zone, 52–53

  Taiwan, children and screen time, 172

  Thing, The (film), 279

  Thompson, Boyd, 221, 223, 224–26, 230

  Thompson, Bryan Dewitt “De,” 21, 221–23, 271–72, 293–95; double homicide of 1957, 222–23, 224–28; Lobelia Saltpeter Cave expedition, 226–28, 230–35; marijuana raid, 272, 276

  Thompson, Linda, 227, 234–35, 271, 272, 293–95, 294–95

  Thoreau, Henry David, 19, 123–24

  Timberline, 56–57

  Time Well Spent, 173

  tinnitus, 77, 160, 260–61

  T-Mobile, 290

  Top Hat (film), 40

  tourism, 186–88, 295–96

  Travolta, John, 201, 218

  TRC Solutions, 119–20

  Trent, Omar, 32

  Trent’s General Store, 31–33, 35–36, 163, 286, 287–88, 302

  Tritapoe, Kristy, 169–70

  Trout Cave, 62

  True Tales of Terror in the Caves of the World (Steward), 229

  Trump, Donald, 66, 69, 131–32, 140, 209, 276, 305

  Tully-Fisher relation, 242

  Turner Diaries, The (Pierce), 93, 103, 104–5, 107, 126, 128–29, 130, 132, 133, 140, 305

  Twenge, Jean, 83

  Twilight Zone (TV series), 21

  Twin Peaks (TV series), 71–72, 216

  Twitter, 14, 18, 76, 84, 173, 207

  UFOs (unidentified flying objects), 61, 158, 241

  United States of America v. Timothy James McVeigh, 128

  Universal Pictures, 210–11

  universe, 9, 29, 30, 174, 242, 295

  University of Colorado, 135, 177

  UScellular, 77

  Vance, J. D., 297–98

  Varner, Kenneth “Buster,” 184–86, 286

  Vassar College, 2, 260

  Verizon, 182, 290

  Verizon Innovative Learning, 171

  Verschuur, Gerrit, 242–43

  Very Large Array, 53, 246

  Voices for Animals, 260

  Vonnegut, Kurt, 201

  Walker, Chelsea, 187

  Wallace, George, 103

  Wallace, Mike, 128

  Wall Street Journal, 69

  Walton, Winters Charles “Pee Wee,” 196–98

  Wampus Cat, 61

  Warner, David, 66

  Warren, Samuel, 15

  Warwick, William, 25

  Warwick’s Fort, 25

  Watoga State Park, 223

  Watts, Galen, 39

  Wave Analysis Verification Research (WAVR), 76, 159

  Weinstein, Netta, 83

  Welcome to Leith (documentary), 144

  Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church, 72–74, 78, 149, 152, 285

  Westminster College, 176

  Weston State Mental Hospital, 223

  West Virginia Department of Natural Resources, 102

  West Virginia First Lego League, 173

  West Virginia Radio Astronomy Zoning Act of 1956, 28, 52, 116–19

  West Virginia Radio Quiet Zone. See National Radio Quiet Zone

  West Virginia Roadkill Cook-Off, 1, 91

  West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine, 101

  West Virginia University, 28, 182, 187, 223–24, 287, 301

  What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia (Catte), 298

  white nationalism, 91–97, 124–33, 305–6; Charlottesville rally, 124–26, 131–32. See also National Alliance

  White Sulphur Springs, 62

  WiFi, 2, 11–12, 45, 113–20; global, 290–91; interference. See radio frequency interference; schools and, 47–48, 164, 165–71, 172, 178–79, 301; tourism and, 186–88, 295–96

  “WiFi refugees,” 69, 72. See also electromagnetic hypersensitivity

  Williams, Robin, 202
, 205, 221

  Williams, William White, 94, 107, 136, 292–93

  Wimer, Bill, 229, 230

  Wimer, Debbie, 229–30

  Wood, Jennifer, 74, 75, 152–53, 291

  Woody, Paulette, 49–54, 57–58, 291–92

  World Health Organization (WHO), 76, 82, 148, 153, 172

  Wulf, Arol, 217–18

  Wulfsong Ranch, 218

  Wullenwebers, 54–56

  Yellowstone National Park, 50, 52, 81

  Yew Mountain Center, 98–102, 118–19

  Zendik, Wulf, 217–18

  Zendik Farm, 102, 216–18

  Zeskind, Leonard, 129

  Zuman, Helen, 217

  About the Author

  STEPHEN KURCZY is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Christian Science Monitor, among other outlets. He graduated from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he was a 2016–2017 Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Economics and Business Journalism. Kurczy has lived without a cell phone for more than a decade.

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  THE QUIET ZONE. Copyright © 2021 by Stephen Kurczy. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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