Why a Booktrail?
2000s: Matchmaking on Nantucket Island
The Matchmaker
Why a Booktrail?
2000s: Matchmaking on Nantucket Island
What you need to know before your trail
Dabney Kimball Beech has had a lifelong gift for matchmaking (fifty-two couples still together to her credit). But when Dabney discovers she is dying of pancreatic cancer, she sets out to find matches for a few people very close to home: her husband, John Boxmiller Beech, celebrated economist and Harvard professor; her lover, Clendenin Hughes, Pulitzer-winning journalist who lost his arm in Southeast Asia; and her daughter, Agnes, who is engaged to be married to the wrong man.
As time slips away from Dabney, she is determined to find matches for those she loves most – but at what cost to her own relationships?
Travel Guide
Nantucket Island
Nantucket Island
The author lives with her husband and their three children on Nantucket, Massachusetts, where her novels are set.
The name “Nantucket” is adapted from similar Algonquian names for the island, and the name is thought to mean “faraway land or island”
The highest point on the island is Sankaty Head, which stands 111 feet (34 m) above sea level.
Nantucket Harbour
There is always a crush of people on the wharf – those disembarking, those picking up house guests, tourists wandering the shops, hungry couple in search of lunch. Nantucket is always busy! With Brant Lighthouse in the background, this really is the place to relax, take a stroll and read a book by Elin Hildenbrand.
Brant Lighthouse
Officially named Brant Point Light, the lighthouse is little more than 26 feet tall, making it the shortest lighthouse in all of New England!
First erected in 1746, the Brant Point Light is America’s second oldest lighthouse.
History of the island
There’s a lot of tradition on the island with the Jethro Coffin House and the Lightship basket museum which is a place dedicated to baskets crafted by local men stationed on offshore lightships.
Main street
The shop for restaurants and shops. Take a bike like the rest of the islanders seem to use. Cars are allowed but they don’t really fit with the olde worlde charm and the seaside air. Best to walk down this street and everywhere else to see and fully appreciate what is around you.
Booktrail Boarding Pass: The Matchmaker
Destination : Nantucket Island Author/Guide: Elin Hilderbrand Departure Time: 2000s
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