The Smoots family, owners of Fanestil Meats founded in 1942 by brothers E.E. and C.L. Fanestil, who built a meat processing facility on the banks of the Cottonwood River south of Emporia. Photo Credit: COURTESY PHOTO
By Ron Wilson, director of the Huck Boyd National Institute for Rural Development at Kansas State University “Party time.” That sounds like fun. It’s also…
