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Vermont
agreed to lease old CCC barracks to the Trapps on this day in 1944.
When Baron Georg von Trapp bought property on Luce Hill in Stowe,
the nearby CCC barracks were empty. They had been built during the
‘30s to house men working on the Little River Dam project.
The
Trapp family established the Trapp Music Camp, naming each CCC dorm
for a famous conductor, including Schubert, Beethoven, Mozart, Bach
and others.
Mornings
began with chapel, breakfast and choir. Afternoons could be spent
learning recorder or violin, or for hiking and swimming. Folk dancing
lessons finished each day.
Image
courtesy Images Of America: Stowe by Wendy
Snow Parrish.
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Each of the CCC Barracks were converted into dorm rooms for
the Trapp Music Camp and named after a famous composer.
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