Lonely Goatherd
Ok, I admit it. I am not ashamed to say so. I grew up on it. I can quote many of the lines. Even sing all the songs. I enjoy The Sound of Music. And my girls think it is great too. On our Friday Night/Movie Night, it is one of the DVDs that is reached for more often than most. The Girls LOVE the Puppet scene (“The Lonely Goatherd”), “So Long, Farewell,” and “My Favorite Things.”
But I also like to get the real scoop since I know Hollywood has always tended to embellish a little with their stories to sell tickets. I have always wondered things like, “where did they go after crossing the alps?” and “did Maria and Georg have any children of their own?” and “did the nuns really know to pull the distributor and wires on the cars?”
So I did some digging and found a pretty cool article from the magazine of the US National Archives, the Prologue, that gives a great detail of what really happened to Maria, Georg and the kids. Check it out:
http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2005/winter/von-trapps.html
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