In the News & Observer story about the upcoming closure of Selma’s district court:

Connie Walker, whose Whistle Stop Quilt Shop is in the running for the May cover of a Better Homes and Gardens quilting magazine, has never opened on Wednesdays.

She never felt comfortable having clientele around while sheriff’s deputies unloaded inmates in orange jumpsuits from a prison van in front of her store. She never felt safe having people who spilled out of the courtroom milling around her 2,400 bolts of fabric, or even borrowing her bathroom.

Walker won’t go as far as some people who call them “undesirables,” but she said, “I could, with a fair amount of accuracy, say they were not quilters.”