Penny’s new novel, The Black Wolf, imagines Canada being pressured to become the 51st U.S. state. She canceled all U.S. book ...

DERBY LINE, Vt (WVNY/WFFF) — The U.S. is now limiting Canadian access to the iconic Haskell Free Library and Opera House. The library has been sitting right on the border since 1904, and has been ...

Right on the border between Derby Line, Vermont and Stanstead, Quebec, sits a historical landmark known as the Haskell Free Library. Home to a library and opera house, neighbors on both sides of the ...

Inside the Haskell Library, a black line on the floor marks the border between the United States and Canada, which patrons from both countries can freely move across. courtesy of Sylvie Boudreau For ...

Penny Thomas of Newport protests a U.S. plan to restrict access to the Haskell Library, which straddles Stanstead, Quebec, and Derby Line, Vermont, on Friday, March 21. U.S. Customs and Border ...

For more than 100 years, people in Stanstead, Quebec, have been able to walk into Derby Line, Vermont, to enter the border-straddling Haskell Free Library and Opera House – no passport required. But ...

The Haskell Free Library and Opera House straddles the border between Quebec and Vermont, with the main entrance just steps into Derby Line, Vt. As of Oct. 1, the U.S. government is limiting Canadian ...

The Haskell Free Library & Opera House, a century-old beloved geographic oddity straddling the dividing line between the U.S. state of Vermont and the Canadian province of Québec has had longstanding ...

Bestselling Canadian mystery writer Louise Penny’s new book, “The Black Wolf,” features Vermont’s border-straddling Haskell Free Library and Opera House. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger When Canadian ...

The unique Haskell Free Library and Opera House was built in 1904 intentionally to straddle the border between Derby Line and the Quebec town of Stanstead. Inside, black tape representing the border ...