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  It is a sunny day in late October, and some 50 people—an eclectic mix of ages and ethnicities, bound together by an air of casual cool, have made a journey from Burlington to Duxbury for an oyster immersion class. Scoter, a fluffy orange retriever, wanders among the students, getting a stroke or a nuzzle as Chris Sherman, president of Island Creek Oysters and Scoter’s owner, welcomes the group to the famed oyster farm, visible outside the classroom’s windows. The students, who arrived that morning via two bright yellow school buses, represent the opening team—both front of the house and back of the house&m
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