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, 3 km east (no water anywhere near back, Salzach river 600 meters downhill, across train tracks and many roads
p19 Rupert 1911, Agathe 1913, Maria 1914, Werner 1915, Hedwig 1917, Joanna 1919, 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
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 14
- Chapter 15
- Chapter 16
- Chapter 17
- Chapter 18
- Chapter 19
- Chapter 20