Unlike most oboists, I didn’t take up the oboe until I was about 30, after we had our first child and moved to Hingham. What terrific luck that there was a community music school, the South Shore ...

Once the U.S. became involved in World War II, many young men were eager to enlist. “All my friends were going,” Jim Peterson recalled, “so I decided to go too.” The Navy was Peterson’s first choice. ...