Overview
The paths of a sheltered girl from Brooklyn, New York, and a worldly music-loving woman from Vienna, Austria, cross and march side by side for seven years. This is the true story of Rosemary Lamour, who interrupts a guidance career to become private secretary to the Baroness Maria von Trapp of The Sound of Music fame. Her years with Maria are filled with exciting celebrities, travels and challenges-though none so challenging as the one that would follow: her marriage, reminiscent of Maria's, to a widower with five young children. In her 80th year, and inspired by the sad realization that she knew nothing of her own grandparents, Rosemary offers this book as a gift to her children and grandchildren, so that they may know her as a girl and young woman with hopes, dreams, joys and sorrows.
Synopsis
The paths of a sheltered girl from Brooklyn, New York, and a worldly music-loving woman from Vienna, Austria, cross and march side by side for seven years. This is the true story of Rosemary Lamour, who interrupts a guidance career to become private secretary to the Baroness Maria von Trapp of The Sound of Music fame. Her years with Maria are filled with exciting celebrities, travels and challenges-though none so challenging as the one that would follow: her marriage, reminiscent of Maria's, to a widower with five young children. In her 80th year, and inspired by the sad realization that she knew nothing of her own grandparents, Rosemary offers this book as a gift to her children and grandchildren, so that they may know her as a girl and young woman with hopes, dreams, joys and sorrows.