Seven Days

Q&A: The Haskell Free Library Finds a Solution to Border Restrictions

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.
Lawrence Journal-World

Former Haskell library director is first-ever Indigenous recipient of library society’s highest honor

Marilyn Russell, a former library director at Haskell Indian Nations University, holds the Distinguished Service Award from the Art Libraries Society of North America. Russell was honored with the ...
Yahoo

U.S. limits Canadian’s access to Haskell Free Library

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 ...
The Globe and Mail

A library, divided

A strip of fraying black tape on an old hardwood floor is the only evidence of the Canada-U.S. border as it cuts across the Haskell Free Library & Opera House. The boundary is easy to ignore, which is ...
Seven Days

Q&A: Exploring the Haskell Free Library & Opera House With Hannah Miller

Hannah Miller is on a quest to write, read and knit in as many public libraries in Vermont as possible. Eva accompanied Miller and her wife, Lisa Zinn, to the Haskell Free Library & Opera House in ...
VTDigger

Family expelled after crossing the border using the Haskell Library lawn

A black car carrying seven people sped across the manicured lawn of the Haskell Free Library in Derby Line, Vt., which straddles the border of Vermont and Canada, on the Fourth of July, according to ...
Fast Company

This library on the border became a microcosm of U.S.-Canada tensions

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 ...
WBUR

Vermonters decry plan to limit Canadian access to border-straddling Haskell Library

U.S. Customs and Border Protection says it will begin to restrict Canadians’ access to a library that straddles the international border due to "a continued rise in illicit cross border activity." The ...
Mint

US bans Canadians from Vermont entrance to historic Haskell library at the border

A long-standing tradition that allowed Canadians and Americans to freely access the Haskell Free Library and Opera House through its main entrance on the Vermont side will end on Monday, CBS News ...
Daily Mail

Library literally split down the middle of US-Canada border will have to pay $215K in war with Trump over ban

A library that straddles the US-Canada border has found itself in the middle of Trump Administration's border debate, and they're not happy about it. The Haskell Free Library & Opera House is not a ...
New Hampshire Public Radio

Locals decry plan to limit Canadian access to border-straddling Haskell Library

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 ...