A Family on Wheels: Further Adventures of the Trapp Family Singers

198 pp. The continuing story of the family that inspired The Sound of Music. "Maria Augusta Kutschera was born on a train heading from her parents' village in Tyrol to a hospital in Vienna, in Austria. She was an orphan by her seventh birthday. She graduated from the State Teachers College for Progressive Education in Vienna at age 18, in 1923. She entered Nonnberg Abbey, a Benedictine (Roman Catholic) monastery in Salzburg, intending to become a nun. While still a candidate for the novitiate, she was asked to teach one of the seven children of widowed naval commander Georg Ludwig von Trapp and his first wife, Agathe Whitehead von Trapp, who had died from scarlet fever. Maria and Georg were married on 26 November 1927"