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The town of Derby Line Vermont straddles the US/Canada border. The border actually runs through the middle of the local library.

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The town of Derby Line Vermont straddles the US/Canada border. The border actually runs through the middle of the local library.

Very interesting Paul - thanks

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Derby Line is known for the Haskell Free Library and Opera House, a line house deliberately constructed on the international border and opened in 1904. The donors were a binational couple: Carlos F. Haskell was a local American businessman who owned a number of sawmills, while Martha Stewart Haskell was Canadian. The intent was that people on both sides of the border would have use of the facility, which is now a designated historic site. Patrons of the library from either side of the border may use the facility without going through border security.

Besides the library, five inhabited structures are divided by the border. Most residents use the US entrances to avoid problems with the border patrol; crossing the border within buildings does not require official permission.[ A tool-and-die factory, once operated by the Butterfield division of Litton Industries, is also divided. The factory in Canada closed in 1982 after a lengthy strike by Canadian workers. The factory in Derby Line is open. It was bought in 1988 by Group Tivoly, a cutting tools company based in France, and has 160 employees.

There are ramifications to living directly on the border of another country. For example, the US Border Patrol expressed a desire to close off streets (such as Canusa Street) which have historically run together with those of Stanstead Town. [In many US locales the term for such a political entity is "township".] Border officials were concerned about illegal immigration. In 2007, the village of Derby Line met with the Mayor and Council of Stanstead in joint session in Québec, to be addressed by the authorities. Ironically, this meant that the Vermont village's trustee meeting was held in a foreign country, following Vermont procedural rules.

A telephone call between Derby Line, Vermont, and Rock Island, Québec, is local




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'skeezy' - I have never come across that word before

Do us Brits ever use it....?



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[GoogaMooga]

Pogo were forced to change their name to Poco after Pogo comic strip creator Walt Kelly threatened them with a cease and desist order.

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That the Czech Republic government directed use of Czechia as the official English short name in 2016




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