Word: trapp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Afternoon classes in the recorder, an antique flute, are held by the Trapp girls. After supper, the campers do folk dances. When one youngster suggested going into Stowe for a movie one night last week, he was gently but firmly frowned down...
...Trapps, the camp is far more than a musical outing; it is their own family experiment in living. Since the death of Baron von Trapp in 1947, the experiment has been presided over by handsome Maria Augusta Trapp, a woman with the charm and will of a medieval matriarch...
...novice in a Salzburg convent, Maria Augusta began to get "bad headaches," she says, and her superiors decided to give her a vacation helping care for the seven children of the widowed Baron Georg von Trapp. Maria Augusta married the baron, bore him three children...
Mayonnaise on Pears. In 1938, the Trapps arrived in the U.S. with $4 in pocket and a concert contract in hand. Father Wasner came along as the family chaplain, by special dispensation of his bishop. "How I hated this country at first," Mrs. Trapp says. "Oblong envelopes and mayonnaise on pears!" But the family was soon making $1,000 a concert, and she thought better of the country. "It's so big," she exclaims, "and I love to make long-distance calls!" All the Trapps are now U.S. citizens, have dropped their titles...
With touring in winter and running a camp in summer, what time is left for family life? "But this is family life!" Mrs. Trapp exclaims. "Martina paints and Agathe makes greeting cards and Maria does wooden candlesticks and Werner farms and we all sing together-we do things together, and that is real family life. That is what is wrong with everybody. They don't do things; they buy them at the five-&-ten. Everywhere we go, I try to show people how to do things together, in the family, which is the way God meant people to live...