It's not that people are backward or fearful of technology. Even microwaves are frowned upon by the region's scientists. This is where you come to get away from the United States. Great American Stories is an occasional series on the unexpected places and unforgettable characters that help define the country. But in Green Bank, it is the presence of some of the most sophisticated technology on Earth that preserves this rural enclave, a throwback town to yesteryear. Technology is constantly changing how we live and communicate. Where cell phones and wireless devices are banned, their use potentially prosecutable by law. You eventually reach Green Bank, population 143, best known as The Quietest Town in America. Keep driving and hook onto the Potomac Highlands Trail toward that magnificent structure. If you're a city slicker accustomed to continuous connectivity, you might start to panic. You can shake your phone all you want, but it won't help. Your radio spins, unable to pull up any stations. But on a clear day, looking south from the Monongahela National Forest, what looks like a giant white Lego structure emerges from this sea of green.Īnd that's about when it starts. Mountain Turnpike twists through dense oak, hickory and spruce trees and keeps winding, like a slithering snake, through the mountains that separate Virginia and West Virginia. Story by Wayne Drash and Evelio Contreras, CNN

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