The photo above, courtesy of the Lower Merion Historical Society, depicts the Von Trapp family at Christmas time, during their four-year stay in Merion Station.
The family, whose story inspired The Sound of Music, settled briefly in Lower Merion after fleeing Nazi-controlled Austria. They lived on Merion Road in a house lent by music patron Henry Drinker Jr., before moving to a Vermont farm in the mid-1940s.
The Lower Merion Historical Society caption reads: "The von Trapps with the family priest, Father Franze Wasner, at left, who also conducted the twelve singing Barons and Baronesses."
