By Jason Evans
Staff Reporter
jevans@thepccourier.com

EASLEY — The operator of DH Tiny Homes Thrift Store hopes his small store can help fulfill a big purpose and assist the currently homeless while preventing others from becoming so in the future.

Dewight Crowley spoke with the Courier on June 25 about his purpose and that of the store, located at 319 Gentry Memorial Highway in Easley.

“I’m a lifelong drifter,” he said. “I started hitchhiking around the country at 14 years old.”

He traversed the country selling souvenirs at events.

“Back in the seventies and eighties we were called drifters,” Crowley said. “Now they’re just called homeless – completely two different things. Part of my ministry is determining the difference between homeless and drifters.”

He drifted again 8 years ago, following a divorce.

“I wanted to find a new life for me,” Crowley said.

That period, before he settled in the area, allowed him to “see the difference between

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