Knox County Economic Opportunity Council Anti-Poverty Arts and Crafts Store
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US 25E South of Town. Founded in 1968 as a community "self help" project, the Anti-Poverty Arts and Crafts Store serves as a sales outlet for handicraft articles made in hundreds of mountain homes. Items brought for sale through the store range from a ten cent corncob pipe made by a mountain boy to a $174.00 solid walnut gun cabinet made by ex-Happy Pappies. Profits go into other self-help projects to provide employment for the poor in the county. Everything for sale in this store is made in Knox County by Knox County people Dexter Press, Inc |