The Haskell Free Library and Opera House, a landmark community building built deliberately across the US-Canada border in 1904 so neighbours could share books and performances, has opened a new Canada‑only entrance. It comes after the Trump administration halted the use of the library’s original cross‑border main door, located on the US side in Vermont.
For more than a century, visitors from both countries wandered freely through the building’s central line, marked by a strip of black tape on the floor. But tightened US security rules effectively closed the historic shared entry in October 2025. The new entrance, built on the
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