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Loren totch brown5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Told with energy and authenticity, his story begins with the handful of souls who came to the area a hundred years ago to homestead on the high ground formed from oyster-shell mounds built and left by the Calusa Indians. He lived a simple life, as a commercial fisherman, marijuana smuggler, and alligator hunter. Born the son of a moonshiner in 1920 on Chokoloskee Isla, his family settled here in 1880, on Florida’s last frontier. Totch, Loren Totch Brown 9780813012285 Boeken bol. 'Totch' Brown, most around here knew him as Totch, is a legend in these parts. ![]() ![]() Until he wrote this memoir - recollections from his childhood in the twenties that merge with reflections on a way of life dying at the hands of progress in the nineties - Totch had never read a book in his life. Totch Browns memoirs of vanished days in the Ten Thousand Islands and the Everglades-the last real frontier in Florida, and even. Before the marijuana money rolled in, he survived excruciating poverty in one of the most primitive and beautiful spots on earth, Chokoloskee Island, nestled in the mangrove keys of the Ten Thousand Islands, located at the western gateway to the Everglades National Park. He lived off the land, especially his beloved Everglades and the Ten Thousand Islands. He was an authentic Florida Cracker whose family roots went back in the area for generations. In the mysterious wilderness of swamps, marshes, and rivers of the Florida Everglades, Totch Brown hung up his career as alligator hunter and commercial fisherman to become, briefly, a self-confessed pot smuggler. Totch, A Life in the Everglades by Loren 'Totch' Brown (Available at Amazon). ![]()
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