The U.S.-Canada Border Runs Through This Tiny Library

(via Atlas Obscura) For nearly 200 years Derby Line, Vermont, and Stanstead, Quebec, essentially functioned as one town. They also shared the same cultural center, the Haskell Free Library and Opera House, an ornate Victorian edifice built deliberately on top of the international border in 1901 by the Canadian wife of a wealthy American merchant. The increased emphasis on border security in the 21st century has changed things in some ways, but in other ways they’ve stayed the same.