A 1939 photograph of the von Trapp Family, image from the Library of Congress.
Singer Carrie Underwood will be leading a live performance of The Sound of Music on television next month which reminds us that the von Trapp family has several ties to Newport County. Baroness Maria von Trapp and her family emigrated to Pennsylvania and later established The Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, Vermont. Maria frequently visited her publisher in Jamestown during summers in the early 1950s and her step son Rupert von Trapp moved to the Adamsville section of Little Compton. Elizabeth von Trapp followed in the family tradition as a professional singer, and has performed at Rosecliff.