Sometimes I spend my day looking through maps for interesting places. Often times I discover things that I didn’t even know were in Maryland. So, when I found this place on a map a few weeks ago and I was quite pleased.
After world war II there was an agreement, the Bretton Woods Agreement, where all the participating nations fixed their currencies to the US dollar. Many a lesson was learned about this agreement when I was in college. Having seen this place on the map, I instantly assumed that this was the same Bretton Woods. I guess I didn’t learn quite enough about the agreement becasue it turns out that the agreement was made in the Bretton Woods of New Hampshire, not of Maryland. Of course I learned that after a trip out there for a picture.
This place seemed like a very nice golf club.
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1 Brett // Mar 12, 2009 at 8:24 AM
It get’s more interesting (or “interesting”): This Bretton Woods was actually named after the NH Bretton Woods, by the main users (/owners?) of the grounds — the World Bank and IMF. See, the WB and IMF were both created at Bretton Woods at the same conference you mention, so they named their recreational park after it. This where all of the World Bank and IMF muckety-mucks play golf, host retreats, etc.
2 jeff // Mar 12, 2009 at 9:18 AM
Thanks Brett,
Now I’m more interested. I’m going to have to find a muckety-muck to get me in there.
I’m going to take a wild guess that the club house is filled to the brim with weird metal sculptures from the 60′s.
3 shelly // Mar 12, 2009 at 9:20 AM
i’m not going unless there’s also a table made out of a sliced, shined, and shellacked tree stump.
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