For 120 years, the Haskell Free Library & Opera House has straddled the Quebec-Vermont border, offering equal access to Canadians and Americans alike, passport-free. That was the vision of its founder, the philanthropist and dual-citizen Martha Haskell, who believed in friendship between the two countries.
As of next week, that remarkable run of binational harmony will come to an end when U.S. authorities cut off Canadian access to the grand turreted building, a decision announced on Thursday evening.
