The Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand
Author:Elin Hilderbrand
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
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Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2022-06-14T00:00:00+00:00
16. The Cobblestone Telegraph
Jordan Randolph, publisher of the Nantucket Standard, has been sitting on Jill Tananbaumâs article about the Hotel Nantucket for well over a month, but he hasnât been inspired to run it. Part of the reason is his own prejudice about the hotel being owned by a renowned London billionaire who has never even set foot on the islandâit feels so wrongâand part of it is that Jordan likes to cover the real issues facing Nantucket. Thereâs the housing shortage, which causes overcrowded conditions for both seasonal and year-round workers. Thereâs the traffic; in the summer, Jordan avoids the intersection by the high school altogether. Thereâs environmental sustainability, the argument against short-term rentals, and issues with the landfill. Nantucket is, in Jordanâs opinion, already too popular, so inundated with visitors that the people who live here canât enjoy it. Jordan realizes this makes him sound like a crochety old-timer. Really what he wishes is that there were a story to the hotelâs renovation that didnât have to do with money, thread count, or Farrow and Ball paint.
And then, suddenly, that story lands on his desk.
Edie Robbins comes into the office with an article written by an eight-year-old girl, a guest at the hotel. This child, Wanda Marsh, claims to have heard from a ghost living in the hotelâs fourth-floor storage closet. Jordan reads the piece and chucklesâitâs not bad; maybe he should hire this Wanda Marshâand then Edie hands over the supporting document, an article published in the Standard a hundred years ago.
âI never knew about this,â Jordan admits. There are, of course, ghost stories all over downtown Nantucket, just as there are in any historic place with creaky old houses. But this one grabs Jordanâs interest. Itâs the combination of the hundred-year-anniversary angle, the little girl, and Edie herself, a young woman Jordan has known since birth. Jordan was friends with Edieâs father, Vance Robbins; they served on the Rotary Club scholarship committee together for years, and Jordan was saddened by his passing.
He gives the little girlâs story and the old article to Jill and asks her to write a new piece about the hotel. âDescribe the renovation from the point of view of the ghost who has lived there for the past hundred years,â he says. âPeople will love it.â
And they do! Jill Tananbaumâs article âHotel Nantucket Haunted by Hadleyâ appears in the Thursday, July 21, edition of the Nantucket Standard and garners more reader response than any other article theyâve run this year. Summer visitor Donna Fenton, who stayed in the hotel with her family in the 1980s, knew there was something spooky about the place. Blond Sharon is intrigued not by the ghost but by the Matouk linens, the oyster-shell-tiled showers, and the blue cashmere throws from Nantucket Looms. Also, Sharon (who likes to know everything) had no idea there was a new adult pool out back. How can she get an invitation? She decides to book a room at the end of August for her sister, Heather, who is a world traveler and very discerning.
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