Loren G. Brow

Loren Gerome Brown, nicknamed "Totch", (March 12, 1920 – May 8, 1996) was an author of historical accounts and first-hand descriptions of life in the Florida Everglades. He wrote Totch, A Life in the Everglades. The book describes Floridians survived off the land from the late 1800s until recent times.

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. His family lives in Chokoloskee.

"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."