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To: rlmorel
Is that the place where the border goes right through the center of the library? I’ve been there!

Yup,the Haskell Library...deliberately built on the border to signify international friendship.There's a black line on the floor that is the actual border.Outside the library there's a very small concrete "monument" which represents the border.Also there are flower pots on the street next to it which also represent the border.

Another interesting thing nearby...there's a street called Canusa Street ("Canusa" = Can=>Canada,usa=>USA) which is mainly in Canada but a short part of it (about 1/4 mile) is actually the border.I've driven it...on that portion the cars parked in the driveways on one side have Quebec plates,on the other side they have Vermont plates.

99 posted on 03/16/2017 4:55:47 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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I was really tickled by it. The inside is interesting as well, each room in the library features a different type of wood, walnut, maple, mahogany, etc.

I was pissed though, went I came back over the border (after going to the Monastery in Canada) where the US side made me wait for a half hour, and asked me if I owned guns.

It really bugged me, because it was completely deserted there, I was the only car that even came through that entire time, and it made me steam.

That was the first time I had an experience like that, and the second time was going up to PEI, where they asked me again if I had guns, took my car apart (even emptying out my pill case in my shaving kit and reprimanding me for mixing my pills instead of having them in separate containers!)...then I got stopped on the way home on a virtually deserted highway just south of Halifax by two police cruisers who again asked me if I had guns. (I don’t blame them there, they got a call from a gas station that said I had driven off without paying for gas, which was technically true, but due to a misunderstanding not intentional...the store clerk apologized profusely and said he told the police he knew it was unintentional, but I had to backtrack 40 miles to clear things up.)

I haven’t been back up to Canada in my car since then...sigh. Don’t know where all that gun stuff comes from, unless they ask it of anyone wearing a military veteran hat. Maybe next time I won’t wear it, just to see what happens.


126 posted on 03/16/2017 7:28:04 AM PDT by rlmorel (President Donald J. Trump ... Making Liberal Heads Explode, 140 Characters at a Time)
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