Cast members from "The Sound of Music" celebrate their enduring 60-year friendship with a reunion in Florence, revealing ...

Here’s everything to know about the real von Trapp family and their lives after The Sound of Music. Yes, The Sound of Music was inspired by the lives of the real-life von Trapp family, which included ...

The only surviving von Trapp child, Johannes von Trapp who was born in 1939, managed the Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, Vermont, enlisted in the Vermont National Guard and eventually established the ...

The von Trapp Family Singers performed across the globe until their final performance in 1955. ... Together, the family flees from Austria to escape the Nazi regime and seeks refuge in Switzerland.

The von Trapp family made their living as a singing group touring in the US after their escape from the Nazis. Maria (middle row, left) sold her memoir for just $9,000.

The von Trapp family appreciated artistry of the musical but not the 'discrepancies' with real-life events, especially surrounding Baron von Trapp.

In 1948, Rupert von Trapp bought a house in Rhode Island. It was a decade after his family immigrated to the United States to escape Austria’s annexation by Nazi Germany, and it would be another ...

The von Trapp children – Sofia, 13; Melanie, 11; Amanda, 10; and Justin, 7 – are the great-grandchildren of Capt. Georg and Maria von Trapp, whose singing family was portrayed in the popular ...

Having hosted guests since the 1950s, and rebuilt following a fire in the 1980s, Johannes von Trapp wished to expand his family’s holdings and, in the process, discovered aquifers of fresh ...

The von Trapp Family Lodge website says that the story of the Von Trapps did not end at the musical's end credits, instead they traveled to the United States in the 1940's and bought a farmstead ...

A farm they bought in 1942 near Stowe, Vermont, has grown into the 2,600-acre Trapp Family Lodge & Resort with 96 hotel rooms, 100 time-share units and 46 villas, Kristina von Trapp Frame said ...