![]() "While life in the Everglades was no picnic, the privilege of living a free life that close to nature was worth all the hardships that came with it: coping with alligators, panthers, and rattlesnakes on muddy lands filled with poison ivy, spiders, and mosquitoes so thick you could rake `em off your brow by the handful. After purchasing his first motorboat at the age of thirteen (and retiring from formal schooling after the seventh grade) he worked as an alligator hunter, commercial fisherman, crabber, professional guide, poacher, marijuana runner, singer, and songwriter. He was also a drug runner and did time in prison for tax evasion. 'Totch' Brownwas born in Chokoloskee, Florida, in 1920. After purchasing his first motorboat at the age of thirteen (and retiring from formal. ![]() He was a commercial fisherman on the Gulf of Mexico and Florida Bay, hunted gators, and was an infantryman at the Battle of the Bulge during World War II, winning a Bronze Star. Totch Brown was born in Chokoloskee, Florida, in 1920. At age 13 he quit school to work full-time during the Great Depression. In his 1993 book, 'Totch: A Life in the Everglades,' longtime resident Loren 'Totch' Brown describes the early tourism boom, which attracted the likes of presidents Dwight D. ![]() ![]() His real name and nickname were given to him by a family friend who was the caretaker for the Indiana family's winter home in Florida. ![]() The book describes Floridians survived off the land from the late 1800s until recent times. He wrote Totch, A Life in the Everglades. Loren Gerome Brown, nicknamed " Totch", (Ma– May 8, 1996) was an author of historical accounts and first-hand descriptions of life in the Florida Everglades. ![]()
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