Gazing at the lush landscape dotted with a few buildings in Lou Schellenberg’s oil painting “The Path Ahead,” one can almost feel the warm breeze, smell the fragrant flowers and hear the soft sounds ...

When I told the Marc Jacobs shopgirl I needed waterproof winter shoes, she gently shut the lid on the quilted boots I wanted and steered me somewhere less hip: the L.L. Bean catalogue. That’s when I ...