Living near Stowe for a good part of the year, I am well familiar with the story of Baroness Maria Von Trapp, The following is taken from a Wikipedia article about her.
Maria was born on January 26, 1905 to Augusta and Karl Kutschera. She was delivered on a train heading from her parents' village in Tyrol to a hospital in Vienna, Austria. She was an orphan by her tenth birthday. She graduated from the State Teachers College for Progressive Education in Vienna at age 18 in 1923. In 1924, she entered Nonnberg Abbey, a Benedictine monastery in Salzburg, as a postulant intending to be a nun.
In 1926, Maria was asked to teach one of the seven children of widowed naval commander, while she was still a schoolteacher at the abbey. Eventually, Maria began to look after the other children, as well.
Captain von Trapp saw how much she cared about his children and asked her to marry him, although he was 25 years her senior. She was frightened and fled back to Nonnberg Abbey to seek guidance from the mother abbess, who advised her that it was God's will that she should marry him. She then returned to the family and accepted the proposal. She wrote in her autobiography that she was very angry on her wedding day, both at God and at her husband, because what she really wanted was to be a nun. "I really and truly was not in love. I liked him but didn't love him. However, I loved the children, so in a way I really married the children. I learned to love him more than I have ever loved before or after. They were married on November 26, 1927, and had three children together: Rosmarie, Eleonore, and Johannes.
After soprano Lotte Lehmann heard the Trapp family sing, she suggested they perform at concerts. After performing at a festival in 1935, they became a popular touring act. They experienced life under the Nazis after the annexation of Austria by Germany in March 1938. Life became increasingly difficult as they witnessed hostility towards Jewish children by their classmates, the use of children against their parents, the advocacy of abortion both by Maria's doctor and by her son's school, and finally by the induction of Georg into the German Navy. In September, the family left Austria and traveled to Italy, then to England and finally to the United States.
In the 1940s, the family moved to Stowe, Vermont where they ran a music camp when they were not touring. All except Georg eventually became U.S. citizens. Georg died in 1947 from lung cancer. The Trapp Family singers disbanded in 1957. Maria and three of the children became missionaries in New Guinea. In 1965 Maria returned to Stowe to manage the Trapp Family Lodge. Maria died of heart failure on March 28, 1987, at age 82. The lodge remains a year-round resort, offering ski touring and snowshoeing in the winter, and serving as a center for hiking and mountain biking in the summer. Many events, including concerts, athletic competitions, and weddings, are held here.
Maria's book, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, was published in 1949. The book was adapted to become a Broadway Musical, The Sound of Music, opening in 1959. The musical, in turn, became the motion picture with the same name, starring Julie Andrews, which opened in 1965.
The cache is not at the posted coordinates, but is not far from them. It is a large bison tube (BYOP), and can be found at N44 26.ABC W072 44.DEF, where
Maria Von Trapp was born on January 2A.
The Trapp Family singers disbanded in 19B7.
Georg Von Trapp died in 19C7.
Maria entered Nonnberg Abbey in 192D.
The Trapp family left Austria in 19E8.
Maria graduated from a state teachers' college in 192F.