MAGA: protecting the homeland from Canadian bookworms
A dispatch from the library that straddles the US-Canada border
STRADDLING THE the border between Canada and America is the Haskell Free Library and Opera House. It serves two places—Stanstead in Canada’s Quebec province and Derby Line in Vermont—which are a single community. Along with the library, the twin towns share water and sewerage systems. For more than a century the library was an example of America’s special friendship with its neighbour. Not only did the pair once have the longest undefended border in the world, spanning roughly 9,000 kilometres, they shared books too.
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