An article in the Panama City Herald titled “Meet Teddy, the St. Andrews Hermit” describes the Norway-born Theodore Tollefsen (1882-1954). He fished as a young man, sailing the world, settling in 1906 on the northeast Florida gulf coast to live on his boat from fishing. The 1929 hurriane reached this part of Florida and destroyed his boat, but Teddy remained in the vicinity, rebuilding his life, gradually more separate from town and populace by natural and artificial causeways. He became a hermit.