“The Wanderground” is about a utopian community of women who communicate psychically with one another. Dr. Gearhart created her own Wanderground later in life: a community she called Women’s Land in Willits, a city in redwood forest country about 140 miles north of San Francisco. Sally Miller Gearhart was born April 15, 1931, in the Appalachian town of Pearisburg, Va., and raised in a conservative Protestant family. Her father, Kyle Montague Gearhart, was a dentist; her mother, Sarah (Miller) Gearhart, was a secretary. It was her first taste of a female-only community and one that stuck with her throughout her life.

Source: New York Times July 26, 2021 22:52 UTC