The outline of a liquor bottle is carved into boards just beneath the tip of the roof on one side of Chris Oliver’s barn, which sits a few feet away from the Canadian border which runs along the northern edge of his farm near Fort Covington, N.Y.
The outline echoes another age along these borderlands when runners moved contraband liquor from Canada south across this stretch of land between Quebec and New York state during prohibition.
Now a different type of traffic is moving through Oliver’s farm: people.
