For more than 100 years, the Haskell Free Library & Opera House has been a symbol of friendship and unity between the U.S. and Canada. Opened in the early 1900s, the building straddles Derby Line, Vt.

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 ...

Nestled in the small, southern Vermont town that gave it its name, the Weston Theater Company is more than 150 miles south of the Haskell Free Library and Opera House. The library and opera house, ...

DEBRY LINE, VT ― If, by some chance, you find yourself in the Haskell Free Library and Opera House here, and you’re looking for tales of heartbreak and disappointment, spare yourself the trip to the ...

Author Louise Penny, right, speaks onstage with CBS correspondent Martha Teichner at the Haskell Opera House on tour for her new book, The Black Wolf. The Haskell Free Library and Opera House was ...

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 ...

Natalie M. Blais is Massachusetts state representative for the First Franklin District. I grew up on the Canadian border in Derby Line, Vt. — across from Stanstead, Quebec. Our communities were ...

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 ...

There is still a place where you can walk freely across an international border, no questions asked. The only protest is the squeaking floorboards near the well-worn boundary line painted on the floor ...

As I pulled into the parking lot of the Haskell Free Library & Opera House — a building famous for straddling the U.S. border with Canada — my phone vibrated with a text from Verizon: “Welcome to ...

The U.S.-Canada border, at 5,525 miles long, is the longest land border between any two countries in the world. With a border that long, this line is bound to be disputed in certain areas and to cause ...