GREEN LIVING: GOING GREEN
The Sounds of Silence
A Vacation for the Ears in the Turks and Caicos
by Jonathan Rogers
11:33 p.m., Day 1: If New York City has a pulse, its heart is beating in Times Square. I listen to car horns, sirens, the rhythmic clatter of subway cars, steam hissing from vents, and people talking in dozens of languages. I give a thought to International Noise Awareness Day, April 29, when activists passed out earplugs and offered free hearing screenings. For me, however, the cacophony is fading: I am heading for Pine Cay in the British West Indies, a quiet getaway in the Turks and Caicos Islands.
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