Photography by Natalie Chitwood for THE MOUNTAINS The joys (and pitfalls) of surviving a genuinely interesting life—a life precisely like the one the woman I’ve been entranced by for the better part of three hours in our effortless, deeply satisfying Sunday afternoon conversation has led—is that you’ve set yourself up to perpetually reflect on what was, always forced to look back even as you’re moving forward. The mesmerizing (and still flawless) Carole Radziwill has had three life-defining eras to reflect upon: her decidedly humble childhood running around her grandparents’ farm in Upstate New York’s Mount Marion, a tiny hamlet in…
