Down on the Freeport town wharf, a fisherman maneuvers through the fog beside the fish dealer's pier, his boat heaped with mussels. Three men in camouflage and carrying shotguns get into an aluminum boat and head out in the rain to where the ducks are. But up on Main Street, a different scene unfolds. At L.L. Bean, a woman fusses over a $65 goose-down pillow, then says to her husband, "I spend half my life in bed, I might as well have a comfortable pillow." Across from Bean's, at Cole Haan, beautiful shoes are on sale for $89, marked down from...
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