== The Story of the Trap Family Singers == === Maria Augusta Trapp Beaverton 921 TRAPP FAMILY === Written 1949, NOT the "Sound of Music" . Born 26/01/1905 near Vienna, Died 28/03/1987 in Stowe, Vermont . Graduated teacher's college in Vienna in 1923 . entered Nonnberg Abby (Benedictine monastery in Salzberg) in 1924 . sent to teach Maria Franziska Trapp in 1926 . married Captain Georg von Trapp 26/11/1927, 3 children Rosmarie 1919, Eleonore 1931, Johannes 1939 . Chapter 0 - the wishing bell, Maria T. visits Tyrol in ~1934, wishes she too could become a writer after 40, rings a church's Wishing Bell . Chapter 1 - raced staircase, slid down bannister, whistled, climbed roof .p12 Bus to Aigen and [[ https://www.google.com/maps/@47.7891612,13.0816531,3a,75y,227.07h,72.44t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sVvgi5O7ahB--abR3KOzuqw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 | Trapp home ]], 3 km east (no water anywhere near back, Salzach river 600 meters downhill, across train tracks and many roads .p19 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_von_Trapp | Rupert 1911 ]], [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agathe_von_Trapp | Agathe 1913 ]], [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Franziska_von_Trapp | Maria 1914 ]], [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_von_Trapp | Werner 1915 ]], [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedwig_von_Trapp | Hedwig 1917 ]], [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johanna_von_Trapp | Joanna 1919 ]], [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martina_von_Trapp | Martina 1921 ]] .p20 25 previous nurses, governesses, and teacher since mother died 4 years before .p21 mountains: Untersberg, Tennengebirge, Hagengebirge, Staufen, Watzmann . Chapter 2 .p23 Butler Hans, Baroness Mathilda, Resi cook, Mariandl kitchen maid, Poldi and Lisi housemaids, Pepi gardener, Franz farm .p25 Pola, Austrian Navy Yard, primitive submarine, exhaust gases, fixed periscope .p27 engagement to Princess Yvonne "soon" . Chapter 3 .p29 religion, grammar, composition, literature, history, geography, physics, botany, French, geometry, algebra, Latin PLUS drwing, needlework, and music theory .p34 guitar and singing . Chapter 4 .p37 Captain plays violin with children, "I didn't think I would ever play again" . . . Advent wreath .p42 4th century bishop St. Nikolaus vs devil Krampus p44 ''Morgen Kinder Wird's Was Geben'' p45 Holy Eve fast day . Chapter 5 .p59 abby council decides Maria should wed Captain p61 11/26/1927 . Chapter 6 .p66 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrove_Tuesday | ''Fasching Dienstag'' ]] party .p68 Baron (heavy smoker) gives up smoking for Lent much about Easter season . Chapter 7 .p76 Salzberg (pop 35,000) Festival .p76 Iuvavum christianized 5th century, St Rupertus built Benedictine Abbey, niece Saint Erentrudis built Nonnberg .p78 Music festival, children reluctant tourguides for dozens of visitors .pregnant with Rosmarie Erentrudis, born 02/08/1929 . Chapter 8 .p85 Peter obsessed with ''Handbook of Camping'' .p87 Camping on Veruda off the shore of Istria and Dalmatia, owned by Signor Pauletta . Chapter 9 .p92 Eleonore 14 May 1931 .p93 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarlet_fever | scarlet fever ]] . Group A streptococcal infection, [[ https://www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-conditions/group-strep-vaccine-research | no vaccine as of 2022 ]], kidney stones .p97 Lammer and Company is bankrupt . Chapter 10 .p99 Rupert in Innsbruck medical college (190 km west) .p102 Easter 1935 Father Wasner . Chapter 11 .p104 August 1936 meet [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotte_Lehmann | Lotte Lehmann ]] enters Trapps in Festival group singing contest, which they win; Georg leaves embarrassed . Chapter 12 .p108 Salzburg radio appearance, Austrian Chancellor [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Schuschnigg | Kurt von Schuschnigg ]] invites them to sing with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra at a State diplomatic dinner .p109 Kleinen Musikvereinssaal ("Small music club hall") then Salzburg Music Festival .p111 December 1936 European concert tour, audience with Pope Pius XI . Chapter 13 .p113 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anschluss | March 11, 1938 Anschluss ]] . Schuschnigg arrested March 12, spent war in Sachsenhausen then Dachau. .p117 Georg given Nazi flag for house: "You know, I don't like the color. It's too loud. ..." .p119 pregnant with "Barbara", infected kidneys, doctor asks to abort .p121 "House of German Art & Restaurant", Hitler at next table .p122 Georg asked to run a Nazi submarine, p123 son Rupert asked to work at Vienna hospital p123 Family asked to sing at Hitler's birthday April 20 .p125 Archbishop agrees they should take Father Wasner with them . Part Two Chapter 1 . St. Georgen? Italy? Mountain Climbing in Tyrol (cover story) .p128 Navy pension in Italy paid passage to Britain, September 1938 ship ''American Farmer'' to US . Part Two Chapter 2 Mr Wagner . [[https://www.google.com/maps/place/Wellington+Hotel/@40.7646272,-73.9809554,20z/data=!4m8!3m7!1s0x89c258f8287cb0a9:0x9e23aee3b21720ff!5m2!4m1!1i2!8m2!3d40.7644845!4d-73.9805464 | Hotel Wellington ]], Seventh Avenue at 56th street (still there, Carnegie Hall 1 block east) . Two youngest daughters at Ursuline Academy in the Bronx . padding to hide pregnancy . Part Two Chapter 3 Getting Settled .p140 Blue bus, 10 Choir members, 56 bags, first concert at Lafayette College in Easton, PA .p143 receptions the hardest (p144 Georg counts 611 handshakes) .p145 "P-lease, Bishop - scram." .p146 Schinken semmel - ham bread roll .p148 Mrs. Pessl, Town Hall Concert, paid $700 .p150 Carleton Smith, house in Germantown PA, The Society of Friends . Part Two Chapter 4 Barbara .p152 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Drinker | Henry Drinker ]] friend .p155 birth at home, only negro midwives, Maria afraid .p156 Johannes Georg 17 January 1939 . Part Two Chapter 5 What Next? . Wagner contract expired, 18/40 concerts, visitor visa expires March 4, INS application denied . Danish impresario, first concert Copenhagen March 12, [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Normandie | ''Normandie'' ]] to Southampton . Part Two Chapter 6 In Sight of the Statue of Liberty .p165 female Trapps briefly visit Austria. .p165 "Met the men in St. Georgen south of the border" ??? .p166 War, concerts cancelled, back to US on [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Bergensfjord | SS Bergensfjord]], arrive October 7, 1939 .p167 "I never want to leave again" - sent to Ellis Island for a few days, hearings . Part Two Chapter 7 Learning New Ways .p175 Embarrassing attitudes from the 1940s: ''"... old grandma rocking on the porch with the cutest little darky on her lap, or of that group of sturdy colored boys picking cotton or harvesting peanuts.'' . Part Two Chapter 8 The Miracle .p179 [[ https://www.google.com/maps/@40.0005479,-75.2493911,3a,89.8y,262h,89.22t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sA5zSh3v9X_Sr76c3BSO2KQ!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DA5zSh3v9X_Sr76c3BSO2KQ%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D96.22725%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i16384!8i8192 | 252 Merion Rd ''Merion Station PA 19066'' ]] .p180 F.C. Schang of Columbia Concerts inc. .p181 Mr. Coppicus, "no sex appeal" .p184 "Trapp Family Singers" . Part Two Chapter 9 Merion .p195 Handicrafts . Part Two Chapter 10 The Fly .p197 new repertoire, with American and English songs .p201 " ... I swallowed a fly" .p202 "you are all guests at a musical party" . Part Two Chapter 11 Stowe in Vermont .p203 success, second tour 96 concerts, third tour more than 100 .p204 after 5 years, debts paid and money in the bank .p207 tourist house for 20 people in Stowe VT ... then the real estate agents .p213 Purchased property off [[ https://www.google.com/maps/@44.4746989,-72.7378491,3a,75y,225.47h,80.94t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sFJSDEC-n8le2a0IeA3YTqw!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DFJSDEC-n8le2a0IeA3YTqw%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D330.63284%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656 | Luce Hill Road ]] . Part Two Chapter 12 A New Chapter .p214 also bough neighboring farm, total almost 700 acres .p217 Rupert and Werner drafted . Part Two Chapter 13 The End of a Perfect Stay .p222 lack of prejudice against "enemy aliens" un-European and heart-warming .p223 Freeman's Auction House in Philadeplhia, helpful auctioneer Bill . Part Two Chapter 14 The New House .p228 Theophile, former owner of second farm becomes "our farmer" .p229 maple sugar, 363 gallons .p232 old house falls down, 1832 newspapers under layers of wallpaper ,p244 Concert to fund new schoolhouse roof, then community volunteers to complete house . Part Two Chapter 15 Concerts in Wartime .p250 little Johannes sells furloughs to soldiers for a penny a day ,p251 singing hearse . Part Two Chapter 16 Trapp Family Music Camp .p262 1944, Sons probably in Italy . Part Two Chapter 17 Snapshots of the Camp .p271 recorder instrument in six weeks of practice . Part Two Chapter 18 Trapp Family Austrian Relief, Inc. .p283 107 performances, collecting donations at most . Part Two Chapter 19 A Letter .p293 scapularconfraternity.weebly DOT com/about-the-confraternity.html Confraternity of the Scapular .p298 Georg dies Friday May 30, 1947 at 4:30AM .p302 a doctor had 17 cases of lung cancer, WW1 U-boat men . Part Two Chapter 20 The Memorable Year .p304 Rosmarie (born 8 February 1929) disappeared in June, found later, sent to psychiatrist . Part Two Chapter 21 Cor Unum .p308 After Armistice Day, sons visited Salzburg, house confiscated by Himmler, chapel to beer parlor, Father Wassner's room became Hitler guest quarters .p308 Hitler had group of soldiers shot because one hummed a Russian folk song .p308 house sold to Saint Joseph's Seminary .p309 Werner marries Martina's bosom school friend Erika .p310 home named Cor unum, one heart