Jack Mason’s signature book, “Summer Town,” recounts the history of Inverness. Oddly, it contains no mention of life in the village during the war years of the 1940s.

A memoir that recently came my way helps close this information gap, at least for a fourth-grade youngster whose family moved to town in the spring of 1943. Inverness had its own elementary school district back then, and the Inverness and Inverness Park students from first through…