New Hampshire Public Radio

US-Canada border library hosts author Louise Penny in book tour stop full of symbolism

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 ...
VTDigger

After a famed Canadian author exits a U.S. tour, a Vermont library enters with an alternative

Bestselling mystery writer Louise Penny hopes a weekend reading at the border-straddling Haskell Free Library and Opera House will show “what happens politically is one thing, and transitory. What ...
New Hampshire Public Radio

Bestselling author Louise Penny cancels U.S. book tour over trade war, except for one border library

The Haskell Free Library and Opera House, pictured on Wednesday, June 12, 2024, was constructed at the beginning of the 20th century on the border between Stanstead, Quebec, and Derby Line, Vermont.
The New York Times

The U.S.-Canada Border Runs Through This Library. That’s Now a Problem.

A wealthy widow built a library and opera house on the border between Quebec and Vermont, a symbol of binational friendship. Now U.S. officials are restricting access to Canadians. By Norimitsu Onishi ...
The Boston Globe

The Vermont-Quebec border runs right through this library. Trump officials used it to stoke tensions.

DERBY LINE, Vt. — For decades, a scuffed-up line of electrical tape bisecting the floor of the Haskell Free Library & Opera House has marked the border between the United States and Canada inside what ...