Marcy Smith stands with her relative, Tom Stockton, in front of commercial-sized freezers, shelving and equipment inside her "survival kitchen" in southeast Texas County. Stockton has been responsible for much of the work in transforming an old house into the kitchen facility. In the background is a fully functional 66-year-old Home Comfort wood stove (made in Poplar Bluff).
Texas County resident David Smith was 75-percent Caddo Indian (a nation that primarily occupied east Texas and northern Louisiana) and once made a promise to tribal officials that he would build a kitchen where young people could be taught how to cook and can food.
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