Lake and mountain view amid guest houses below the Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe, Vermont. The Trapp family, largely fictionalized in "The Sound of Music" musical — based loosely on The story of the Trapp Family Singers of Austria -- left that country shortly after its annexation by Nazi Germany in 1938. Baron Georg von Trapp and his wife Maria settled with their family in Vermont in 1942. After the baron's death in 1947, the family expanded and operated their home as a 27-room ski lodge. It was destroyed by fire on 20 December 1980; a new Austrian-style lodge with 93 rooms was opened in 1983. Photo by Carol Highsmith, 2017..