Fred Albert Newport Life magazine Little Compton is one of the few places where you could get lost and not mind it a bit. Back roads beckon you with verdant vistas and venerable homes in a happy marriage of country charm and cosmopolitan mien. For a health care executive who had summered in Little Compton his whole life, buying a home there felt like an adventure right out of Goldilocks. For several years, he visited house after house, but nothing was quite right: This one lacked character. That one was too ostentatious. Another needed too much work. You might conclude that the house he ...