Word: line
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Here at the edge of northern Vermont, the international boundary lies right across a quiet but thickly settled small town. On the American side, the town is called Derby Line, Vt.; on the Canadian, Rock Island, Que. Local historians believe that the border runs the way it does because an 18th century British surveyor named John Collins was drunk...
...most Americans the border between the U.S. and Canada seems hardly more than an arbitrary division between two similar and friendly nations. To Bolduc and her family and others in town, the border they straddle represents a very real division. As Derby Line sees it, Canada and the U.S. are distinct sovereignties, often at odds about dozens of minor points of currency, taxes and domestic...
...other side. No machinery, materials or goods can cross the borderline in the center of the building-carefully marked by wall plaques and dabs of red paint-unless the appropriate customs service is notified and a duty is paid. Vending machines just a few feet over the line will not accept the currency of the other country...
...most dramatic border incident in Derby Line occurred on July 14, 1976. Rifle-toting plainclothesmen suddenly appeared at every door and window of the town library, an imposing turn-of-the-century granite and brick structure just outside the center of town, and the only public building standing in the U.S. and Canada at the same time...
...island from the cruise boats, most of which pull up at Long Wharf, next to the Aquarium and right on the Blue. Line. You can get a friend with a boat. You can swim, if you're not adverse to a little oil. Or you can just look out the window of your 727 as you start the return flight back to the coast...