BRETTON WOODS — New Hampshire is for dreamers.
Darby Field was a dreamer when he became the first white man to ascend to the top of Mount Washington, the highest peak in the White Mountains and the backdrop of this town that played host to the famous 1944 financial summit that established the International Monetary Fund. Nathaniel Hawthorne was a dreamer when he took the tragic story of a family destroyed in the Willey Slide of 1826 only miles from here and transformed it into one of his "Twice-Told Tales," "The Ambitious Guest," that he published nine years later.
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