Pat McCormack had a special connection to music since childhood. So when she needed a diversion from her intense medical career, the forty-something chose the flute as a creative outlet. But after hearing a breathtaking masterpiece performed during a class, she vowed to learn the difficult and demanding piece no matter what… Read More

Growing up in an Arabian oil camp made exotic desert fantasies everyday realities. Surprisingly, it also fulfilled a seemingly impossible dream — an all-American childhood. On a steamy August day in 1953, Rick Snedeker, then just three years old, stepped… Read More

As China began to embrace the modern world in the 1980s, one man found the courage to claim his future. For as long as he could remember, Cape Cod native Andrew Singer had been drawn to the rich culture and… Read More