‘They settled in Stowe, Vermont in 1940.’
In 1976 we took a trip around the US in a rented motor home, beginning here on the west coast. (We are native New Yorkers).
We stopped and ate at the Von Trapp lodge in Vermont.
We JUST missed Mara who spent a bit of time mingling with the diners. Don’t think we knew beforehand she did that, else perhaps we would have made the effort to be there earlier. That was good PR and I believe she actually enjoyed mingling. Saw her a few times on TV and she was quite gregarious.
We did stop at the gift store, which was/is a short distance from the lodge - it is a mountain drive, after all - where at least one of the adult children was working when we were there.
But no, don’t remember who it was.
Did Maria and the captain have any children of their own?
If so, the clerk in the gift store may have been one of theirs.
(I can’t imagine that the family did not get tired of all we tourists. But then there’s always a new day. I suppose there was a bit of pride, tho) - - -
I DEFinately should have paid more attention, but also, the memory is dimming about lots of things - - -
Three. The last was actually born in the USA.
A breezy read; has all you might want to know. http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2005/winter/von-trapps.html
Georg and Maria had 3 children together. He had 7 children from his first wife.
http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2005/winter/von-trapps.html
“Movie vs. Reality: The Real Story of the von Trapp Family”
Georg von Trapp was a submarine expert in the Austro-Hungarian Navy. His first wife, Agatha Whitehead, was the granddaughter of Robert Whitehead, the inventor of the modern torpedo. Agatha died in 1922. Von Trapp married Maria Kutschera in 1927.