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 Trapp home