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In 1993, the Shipmans' great-granddaughter and her husband, Barbara Ann and Gary Andersen, returned to Hilo to purchase and restore the family home on Reed's Island in Hilo, on the Big Island of Hawaii. They continue the tradition of old Hawaiian hospitality as they open their historic home and guesthouse to bed and breakfast guests.Let your host share memories and family anecdotes with you during the Grand Tour of the mansion and the gardens. Barbara and her sister spent a part of every summer with their great-aunts at the house, weeding the cutting garden, riding wheelbarrows down rolling green lawns, arranging flowers, making plum jam, bathing in claw-foot tubs, and sleeping in four-poster beds.
Barbara and Gary love this side of the island, and enthusiastically share its beauty, history, special nooks and crannies with any and all newcomers. This part of Hawai`i, so often overlooked by travelers and travel agents, has an "old Hawai`i" charm which most visitors really enjoy.
Shipman House Bed & Breakfast Inn
131 Kaiulani Street
Hilo, Hawai`i 96720
Phone/fax (808) 934-8002
Reservations (800) 627-8447
http://www.hilo-hawaii.com
