Weekend Wrap-up March 22: Borderline Paranoia

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Weekend Wrap-up March 22: Borderline Paranoia

The Library and Opera House in Haskell Vermont was built on the Canada/US border as a symbol of friendship with neighbouring Stanstead, Quebec.

Residents of Stanstead could walk down the sidewalk and enter the building through the main door located in Vermont with no border checks. Once inside, you can cross back into Canada to browse the stacks then back to the US to check out your books before going outside and back to Canada.

Now, the US government is requiring Canadians to travel half a kilometer to the border crossing.

So, what once was a symbol of friendship and cooperation is now…well, not.

And the Haskell Library is not the only border oddity. The International Peace Gardens straddles the Manitoba and North Dakota border:

One of the boosting points of the Canada/US border had always been that it is the world’s longest undefended border. But someone changed all that.

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-Leon

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Leon Stevens is a multi-genre author, composer, guitarist, songwriter, and an artist, with a Bachelor of Music and Education. He published his first book of poetry, Lines by Leon: Poems, Prose, and Pictures in January 2020, followed by a book of original classical guitar compositions, Journeys, and a short story collection of science fiction/post-apocalyptic tales called The Knot at the End of the Rope and Other Short Stories. His newest publications are the novella trilogy, The View from Here, which is a continuation of one of his short stories, a new collection of poetry titled, A Wonder of Words, and his latest sci-fi mystery, Euphrates Vanished.

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