Homeschool Graduation

Preparing Lunch with Charissa

The girls sewed their own dresses

Mom and Mrs. Maurer who just returened
from her mother's passing and funeral

The guys: Adam, Lance, Victor, Andrew and Warren
Warren just accepted a full-time pastorate there.

Rachael and her Grandpa

Mell's dad's blessing made us cry.

Timothy and Katie spoke

Trapp Family Lodge

"Welcome to a little bit of Austria and a lot of Vermont"

Click on the family tree below

to see the groom,

Sam, the son of

Johannes and Lynne (Peterson) Von Trapp

on the far right

Von Trapp Family Tree

Four of the original Von Trapp children are still living:

Two from Georg's first wife:

Agathe and Maria

Two from Georg's second wife, Maria:

Agathe and Johannes

Maria

Maria giving Johannes music lessons



Regina, John, Dinah, Brenda & Max



It was so good to meet Brenda and see Max happy.
He says his time in Florida Marine Mechanic school
was a success because he found her.


Lamppost


Wagon Wheel


Spring in Vermont


Lodge Cattle

Dinah was in her element checking out the plants, the compost, and the seedlings.

Many of their plants are started from seed in the greenhouse.

The gardeners use newspaper planting cups that will disintegrate once planted.

Inside, we encountered...

flower arrangements destined for the wedding.

This one we later found in the ladies restroom.

Regina and Barbara Davis

a long time friend of Grandma who just retired

from being a college professor in Sacremento

Garden wheel

The new wing where we stayed.

A beautiful flower garden

But it turned out to be...

The family grave yard.

Each grave is planted with flowers.

Georg and Maria are buried in the middle.

With their children's plots spread out on each side.

A mouse friend I discovered on one grave bed

Dinner at the Von Trapp home on the Eve of the Wedding

Johannes, the youngest son of Georg and Maria,

welcomed each guest into their home

One cousin said this was his first time there,

but he had seen this home in a magazine.

Henry, Elisa's stepfather who raised her, Elisa and Ellen

Bounty

Elisa's dad, Jorge, Uncle John and Elisa's mom, Auntie Mary

The Library of an International Hunter

Barbara and her sweet granddaughter, Zoe.


What to do with a spare elephant's foot

"Spy," (pronounced Seppi) is a Hungarian Barron

who got Sam his job at Portillo, where Sam and Elisa met.

Spy fled Communism in Hungary and settled in Cuba.

He later fled Castro to Florida.

Spy traveled the world during the '50s when it was much harder to travel,

learning art from countries from Paupa New Guinea to Korea.

Regina and one of Lynne's cousins

All of her cousins I talked to are productive people.

Goodnight!