By Rick Steelhammer, Charleston Gazette-Mail
GREEN BANK, W.Va. — A newly formed support group for the Green Bank Observatory, now under threat from planned “decommissioning and disposition” in the Trump administration’s fiscal year 2026 budget, will host a free virtual screening of an award-winning documentary about the observatory and the community surrounding it on Sept. 4.
The 2024 feature-length documentary, “Small Town Universe,” by Emmy-nominated director Katie Dellamaggiore, “paints an intimate and captivating portrait of life in Green Bank [Pocahontas County], home of the world’s most sensitive radio telescope and the only U.S. town where WiFi and cell phone use are banned,” according to the Internet Movie Data Base.
