Chapter 3 of The Finders

The Finders Network From The 1960s to 1987 According to Finders Network Member Tobe Terrell - Part 2

Tobe Terrell visited the commune The Farm in Lewis County, Tennessee, after he left the Free State to help his friend Michael Helping. The Farm was founded in 1971 by Stephen Gaskin and three hundred people from Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco. Terrell met Gaskin at The Farm. The Farm is well known for having a modern revival of the practice of midwifery. Stephen Gaskin’s wife Ina May Gaskin wrote a bestselling New Age natural medical book about reviving midwife practices known as Spiritual Midwifery. I am not against natural childbirth methods, the emphasizing of the importance of breastfeeding, or midwives themselves. However, I do not agree with the stories of Christian Amish women being used as content in a New Age book and the New Age bent that was brought into these practices through the popularity of Spiritual Midwifery. Terrell would return to the Washington D.C. area and join the Finders Organization within a few months.[1] [2] [3] [4]

Tobe Terrell would make offers and purchase the 3918/3920 W Street, NW Washington D.C. apartments and 2216 40th Street in the Glover Park neighborhood for The Finders Network in January 1973. The Finders would own the W Street apartments, and they would serve as their headquarters until 1999. The apartments were also near Jesuit Georgetown University. The Finders would give the 2216 40th Street apartment building to a former Finders member supposedly named “Sunshine” when she left the network in 1975. Terrell quit working for the United States Internal Revenue Service in 1972 and, at that time, owned a lucrative Washington D.C. investment business. Marion Pettie would tell Terrell after the closing of the apartment buildings to go take a trip just like he would take a trip around the world after closing every time he bought a piece of real estate.[5] [6] [7]