Totch's family was among the intitial ones in the Everglades City area of SW Florida soon after the end of the Seminoles Wars (3) in the mid-1800s. --- Everglades icon ~ Totch Brown www.examiner.com (Excerpt) Brown's acting debut was in 1958 - Wind Across the Everglades, starring Burl Ives. His book, films and documentaries that followed, even though years later, were: (book) Totch, A LIfe in the Everglades, (films) Best of: The Everglades National Park, The Sage of Chokoloskee (1993), The Everglades Outlaw: Totch Brown, Yesterday's Everglades (1996), Tallahassee 7000 - Bootleg Whiskey in the Everglades (TV), and the feature film Gone Fishin' (1997) - (Totch died before the film's release). --- Totch grew up in the mangroves next to his dad's moonshine still in the 1920s. In 1983, Totch also had a major role in the 1983 drug bust called "Operations Everglades." So as to protect others in his family, Totch plead guilty and agreed to do jail time besides forfeiting $2 million dollar. Thankfully, David Clarke, president of International Video Projects www.videoprojects.tv and his friend Gordon Stevens met Totch in 1991 and also did video interviews of Totch in 1993 and 1995. www.amazon.com Totch: A Life in the Everglades by Loren G. "Totch" Brown, Paperback: 279 pages www.amazon.com ---- More of Totch Brown www.youtube.com (5:28 minutes) www.youtube.com (5:44 minutes) www.youtube.com (5:27 minutes) www.youtube.com (6:27 minutes) Everglades reflections, Christopher Plummer ...
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