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ROADTRIP Dishing in West Virginia

WHERE: The National Radio Astronomy verse’s origins. with the antennae, you will get fewer pesky Observatory in Green Bank, W.Va. Here you’ll see the Robert C. Byrd Green calls on your cellphone. Bank Telescope, which the NRAO describes Be sure to stop in Staunton on the way WHY: Eat barbecue cooked in an old bomb- as the world’s most advanced and largest back for a hamburger and milkshake at er’s fuselage, visit the Bard, and tune in to fully steerable radio telescope. At 485-feet Wright’s Dairy-Rite, a sputnik-age drive-in the universe at an observatory with radio tall, the Green Bank antenna is taller than restaurant that still offers curb-side service telescopes that once tried to dial up E.T. the Statue of Liberty, and its parabolic dish (minus the roller skates). is big enough to hold a football field. Okay, — Fredrick Kunkle HOW FAR: About 200 miles or three hours now some might think it just looks like any National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Route from Leesburg. old ordinary satellite dish before cosmic 28/92, Green Bank, W.Va., 304-456-2150, rays turned it into a giant mutant. But the www.nrao.edu. Open daily, 8:30 a.m.-7 p.m. ay the year is 1960, and you think science behind the apparatus and the world Free tours begin at the top of the hour from 9 Tuck int extraterrestrial aliens want to of deep space that the radio telescope is ex- o pulled pork, fries and slaw a.m.-6 p.m. e pole smack in at the Mighty Midget Kitchen send us a message — maybe ploring will fill you with awe. Capable of de- ost, shack , a Yes, someone put aoad whit in White P -sized diner built fr something like “Hello, may we tecting radio signals from 13.7 billion light the middle of the r . bomber fusela om a B-29 Road Trip maps are available online at www. n that bears its name ge. please speak with Orson Welles?” years away, the antenna has helped chart the washingtonpost.com/roadtrip, as are addresses the tiny tow or “Greetings, could you direct us to some winds on a Saturn moon and discovered the and hours of operation (be sure to check be- S Winchester nice places to hover?” Or maybe you hope to fastest known pulsar 28,000 light years from fore you go). Have an idea for a trip? E-mail [email protected]. pick up a stray signal from a distant planet’s Earth. You can see other antennae, too, in- 17 Tour the 19th-century Oatlands television show, a “Mr. Ed” where horses cluding the 31-foot-diameter telescope that 50 plantation with its mansion, Leesburg Start really do talk. Grote Reber built in his mother’s back yard 522 340 greenhouse and gardens — plus here But first, you would need a giant radio with parts from a Model-T. a former dairy and smokehouse. 15 7 telescope. And if you were astronomer The science involved is well explained in 81 White 340 Post Oatlands Frank Drake, who pioneered the Search for the kid-friendly “Catch the Wave” exhibit in- 28 Extraterrestrial Intelligence, you would put side the observatory’s science center. Al- 522 Aldie that telescope deep in the Appalachian though you wouldn’t see anything even if WEST VIRGINIA 50 Driver’s Mountains. Today, the 85-foot-diameter you could peer inside the telescopes, the ex- route antenna that Drake used still stands at the hibits include plenty of false-color — even 15 11 50 National Radio Astronomy Observatory. psychedelic! — pictures of intergalactic phe- 81 The Aldie Mill And although the observatory got out of the nomena that have been mapped by the site’s dates back 28 business of listening for E.T. some time ago, radio antennae. to 1807. you can tour the grounds while several giant One other bonus: Because the observato- 29 radio antennae sweep the heavens for some- ry is located in the 13,000-square-mile Na- 17 66 thing perhaps even more fascinating than tional Radio Quiet Zone, designed to limit EXIT 273 Live bugs abound at The 15 extraterrestrial phone calls: clues to the uni- radio signal transmissions that interfere 29 Great Maine Lobster Mount Jackson 340 Company roadside stand, which professional race car 11 driver Christian Flemming opened eight years ago. 33 The 1894 Meem’s 211 Our Soldiers 220 Bottom Bridge, ’ Cemetery VIRGINIA the longest covered war dead with sm honors Confederate 250 all flags from each S 0 20 The Highland Inn billed itself as the “Pride of the bridge in Virginia, state that flutter fr outhern 92 28 om the gates. MILES Mountains” when it was built in 1904 for folks trying was destroyed by WEST to escape the heat in mid-Atlantic big cities. fire in 1976 and VIRGINIA 42 reopened three 92 years later. National Radio 28 Harrisonburg Astronomy Observatory Confederate Breastworks is a Green Bank historic site (formerly Fort Edward Monterey Johnson) with an observation post overlooking the Cowpasture River Valley. 33 220 81 PENNSYLVANIA 250 81 42 Head 68 MD. Waters 11 79 Leesburg WEST 340 VIRGINIA 66 250 Green Looking for star-crossed lovers Bank on the way? Strut and fret on over to the American Shakespeare Staunton 95 The family-owned oss Center’s Blackfriars Playhouse, been serving doubleWright’s Dairy-Rite ors on a trip acr 81 EXIT 222 has lescope takes visit VIRGINIA which boasts the world’s only and ice cr -decker burgers, fri Green Bank Te re-creation of William Shakespeare’s 11 eam since 1952. es The gigantic om its home in the Appalachian Mountains. 81 64 -time continuum fr original indoor theater. the space

MAP BY JEROME COOKSON FOR THE WASHINGTON POST; TELESCOPE PHOTO BY NRAO-AUI; OTHER PHOTOS BY FREDRICK KUNKLE — THE WASHINGTON POST

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