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Showing posts with label Vermont. Show all posts
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| Hilda van Stockum as a Young Woman. |
Dank je wel (thank you) for reading!
Here are the top ten most-read posts since 2015.
| Entry |
| WW2 BOOKS | HvS Classic Jumps to #6 from #11 on Go... Dec 23, 2015 |
| BRAM VAN STOCKUM | Expedition 1902-03 May 8, 2016 |
| HvS | Eleven Poems Oct 2, 2016, 1 comment |
| PATSY AND THE PUP | "My Favorite Book," says Hachi... Mar 31, 2016, 4 comments |
| HvS | Links to Her and Sibs, Ancestors Jun 7, 2016, 1 comment |
| HvS | Nov. 1–10th Anniversary of Her Death Oct 30, 2016 |
| HvS | RHA Exhibitions, 1990-2000 Sep 16, 2016 |
| ART | HvS Collections, Exhibits, Sales (Updated No... Oct 25, 2015 |
| HvS IN VERMONT | Painting, Trapp Family Lodge, 195... Dec 21, 2016 |
| KIN | Boissevain Reunion, April 16-17, 2016, Amste... Oct 8, 2015 |
Wednesday, December 21, 2016
HvS IN VERMONT | Painting, Trapp Family Lodge, 1950
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| Hilda van Stockum doing a plein air demo of her painting at or near the Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, Vt. In the background is surely Mt. Mansfield, Vermont's highest peak. |
The Marlins spent a few weeks at a Music Camp at the Lodge in about 1947, right after the death of Georg [von]* Trapp.
We all learned to play instruments – especially the recorder – and to sing in parts. Most of the music was religious because the Trapps' brilliant but forgotten (i.e., not in the script of the Sound of Music) musicologist was Fr. Franz Wasner.
The Trapp Family Lodge experience kindled a desire by our Dad to expose us to more culture and led to the multi-week vacation trips that we took around Europe in our Volkswagen bus in 1954-55.
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| A photo of HvS from around 1950. |
Note
*The "von" is in square brackets because it helps identify Maria Trapp as the wife of "Baron" von Trapp, who became famous through the movie The Sound of Music. When the Trapps became U.S. citizens, they forswore titles, and the "von" in the German language connotes nobility. (In Dutch, it does not.)
Corvette Captain Georg Johannes Ritter [Knight] von Trapp (1880–1947), incorrectly referred to in The Sound of Music as Baron [Freiherr] von Trapp, earned his fame as WW1 Austro-Hungarian Navy officer. Submarines SM U-5 and SM U-14 under his command sank 13 Allied ships totaling about 45,669 gross register tons. Following Austria-Hungary's defeat and collapse, Trapp returned to his family but in 1922 lost his first wife to scarlet fever. Most of his children were by his first wife.
Five years later, Georg von Trapp married his children's governess, former novice Maria Augusta Kutschera, who trained the children to sing and perform to earn money after most family wealth was wiped out by a bank failure. After the Anschluss, von Trapp refused to serve in the Nazi Navy. Instead, he fled to Italy and then to the United States, where he bought a farm in Vermont and lived there until his death in 1947. The Lodge is now run by a grandson of Georg and Maria von Trapp.
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