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‘Uncertain’ Finds the Heart of East Texas in Its Troubled Waters

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Christopher Campbell
Apr 20, 2015
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Uncertain, Texas is a town on the edge. It’s quite literally on a border, the one shared by Texas and Louisiana. It’s on the edge of a fragile body of water, Lake Caddo. It’s on the fringe of society, hard to find on a map and inhabited by only 94 people. And it is also on the brink of extinction. The whole economy of the town is built around the lake, …

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