The Real Story of the von Trapp Family


	The Real Story of the von Trapp Family

bignosemousie

3-30-2008 1:40 PM

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More pictures at the source, too.

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3-30-2008 2:33 PM

alanocu

very interesting - thanks for posting this!

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6ec67716-38b4-4e4c-8b12-5553b4f18251/0367F95A-E827-44AE-9740-A45134E44F69/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2005/winter/von-trapps.html" href="http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2005/winter/von-trapps.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.archives.gov</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2005/winter/von-trapps.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.archives.gov/img/62F35DA8-3830-436B-A068-ADE66DF364D0" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2005/winter/von-trapps.html"><DIV>Maria came to the von Trapp family in 1926 as a tutor for one of the children, Maria, who was recovering from scarlet fever, not as governess to all the children.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2005/winter/von-trapps.html">Maria did not marry Georg von Trapp because she was in love with him.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2005/winter/von-trapps.html">"I really and truly was not in love. I liked him but didn't love him. However, I loved the children, so in a way I really married the children.  . . . [B]y and by I learned to love him more than I have ever loved before or after."</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2005/winter/von-trapps.html">There were 10, not 7 von Trapp children.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2005/winter/von-trapps.html"><AREA alt="Joanna Karoline von Trapp, photograph from her Declaration of Intention. 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