WE HAD gone back to Ceylon for a second winter so that I could paint elephants, and were in Akuressa because it was the nearest place to the Dediyagala sawmill where elephants worked. Seeing elephants ...

Mark Fangue and Liz Allen have seen it all as owners of an exotic gift store and all-around globetrotters. But nothing rivals last year’s serendipitous encounter with a small Thai village, an elephant ...