Piecemakers’ store seized to pay multi-million judgment to former member
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The bankruptcy trustee arrived — with a locksmith — around noon on Friday, Jan. 31.
Upstairs, an heirloom teddy bear-making class was in session. Downstairs, budding quilters sewed. And in the tearoom, customers sipped homemade soups and nibbled fresh sandwiches and salads.
You have an hour to vacate the premises, folks inside the Piecemakers Country Store were told. Everybody out.
It wasn’t exactly unexpected, but panic ensued nonetheless.
Not so long ago, Piecemakers’ spiritual leader Marie Kolasinski waged a righteous (and salty-tongued) holy war against county health inspectors who dared intrude on the tearoom’s kitchen. It was government tyranny! She went to jail, at age 85, for her defiance. What eruption of curses would Kolasinski conjure now, were she still alive to see this?
The Piecemakers — a chaste Christian fellowship to those on the inside, quirky cult to those on the outside — had lost, and lost big.
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