Hans Rey

The long and winding road that landed Hans and Margret Rey into a modest cottage for 20 summers in Waterville Valley starting in the 1950s, is no less enticing than the adventures of their creation, a clever and now-famous monkey named Curious George. The perennial children’s book and now media favorite first appeared in 1941, a year after the Reys fled Paris on bicycles constructed by Hans from a tandem bicycle and spare parts.