The Finders

[Doug Fisher]

http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1987...en-finders

The men, Finders members Michael Holwell, 23, and Douglas Ammerman, 27, are in the Leon County Jail, charged with misdemeanor child abuse stemming from the unkempt, bug-bitten condition in which the children were found.
''Our main concern is to make clear to the authorities that we are very good parents and that the home environment is not just adequate but superbly happy, healthy, fun and educational,'' said Kristin Knauth, 26, a free-lance writer and editor and mother of Ben, 4, one of the children in custody.

http://infidels.org/kiosk/article/a-free...r-257.html

A Freethinkers' Haven Grows in--Culpeper?
Kristin K. Nauth
In one of the most conservative towns in Virginia, a female skeptic is launching a "live-in/live-out think tank" for secularists of all stripes. Only those with a good sense of humor need apply, though.
Seventy miles south of Washington, DC, is the town of Culpeper, Virginia, a pretty little burg of 10,000 with views of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Culpeper is the sort of place where your social circle is defined by which of the 30-odd Christian churches you belong to, the tallest edifice in town is the Southern Baptist steeple, and the Wal-Mart parking lot is full at 11pm on a Saturday night. George Washington surveyed the town's limits in 1749--and, according to a local joke, that's the last interesting thing that happened here.
The solid, red-brick corner house at 409 Macoy Avenue seems transplanted from another planet. On a block of crewcut lawns and military-corner boxwoods, this yard is veiled by a scrim of soaring, lacy bamboo. Cross the front porch and the first thing you spot is a quote by Emma Goldman on the front door: "Atheism is the eternal yea to life, purpose, and beauty." Well, that's a breath of fresh air; this town was starting to make you feel a little paranoid. Then you notice there's no doorbell, only a large Chinese gong, which makes a sonorous clang when you tentatively tap it with the drumstick hanging nearby.
And the smiling blonde woman who opens the front door looks far less like the natives you've met than like a young Swedish university professor. Which, it turns out, she is. Introducing herself as Merrie Shaker Pettie, female skeptic, she explains in softly accented but fluent English that she arrived two years ago from Stockholm, where she worked as a lecturer in philosophy. Her father was American, and she moved here when a relative bequeathed her this house.

This Finder, Knauth or Nauth, is obviously not being very honest by failing to disclose her relationship to The Finders. But who is Merrie Shaker Pettie? Marion's wife? Daughter? This poster claims they emailed Nauth and she said the following...

http://www.rigorousintuition.ca/board2/v...=46&t=8555

in a sort of poem that sometimes she goes by Kristin Knauth, sometimes by Kristin K. Nauth and sometimes by Merrie Shaker Pettie. Yep, she's not his daughter or wife, she's a fictional creation of or alternate personality of (K)Nauth. Now, I have no way to prove this, even if I did have the emails, because I could have made it up...but maybe you can track her down and write her yourself.

Now even if that poster is telling the truth, it doesn't mean much considering The Finders admit that they like to play games and confuse people.