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Author Biography
Linda Hamer Kennett writes "What’s in the Attic?"
After many years of living on the East Coast, Linda Kennett returned to her home state of Indiana and settled in Irvington to raise her two children. With the original intent of staying for 5 years, she is now on her 24th year in her 1902 farm house, with no plans to leave. She began her estate liquidation company "What's in the Attic?' in 1993 and after 5 years of assisting the residents of the eastside with selling their antiques, she took the advice of friends and started her column to share her experiences. From it's beginning with one local paper in 1998, her column is now carried weekly in over a dozen papers in the mid-west, as well as online with Ruby Lane, Auction Trends and eHow.com.
Today her work takes her throughout Central Indiana viewing everything from heirloom sterling silver to primitive farm tools. In addition to her column and her company she lists among her credits a long time membership in the International Society of Appraisers, 2 time recipient of the Southport Antique Mall Award for Excellence and production staff assistant to the Antiques Roadshow.
Linda Hamer Kennett’s Story Archive
Pickles, Politics, and Penny Candy
As an Indiana farm kid in the 50′s I didn’t get to spend a lot of time with my Dad. He worked long hours in the fields and the opportunity for the two of us to have time together was rare. It is for this reason that my heart would … Read More
Hoosier Pride
California takes great pride in it’s historic Mission style furniture. From Blenko to Fenton, the glass factories of West Virginia have provided us with some of our most collectible antique glassware. The art pottery of Rookwood, Weller, and Roseville would never have been possible without the rich clay soil of … Read More
Gustav Stickley — Father of the American Arts & Crafts Movement
With a passion for the environment and a love of nature, Gustav Stickley introduced simplicity to the American public in early 1900s. Drawing inspiration from the beauty of his native state, Wisconsin, Stickley’s philosophy of “organic architecture” was based on four ideas: a house should be constructed in harmony with … Read More
Halloween Memorabilia — Trick or Treat?
As a child in the 1950s, Halloween was a time for homemade costumes, trick or treat, decorating the neighbor trees with toilet paper and wonderful parties where we bobbed for apples and played spin the bottle when the adults weren’t looking! But if we go back to early 1900s America, … Read More
The Toy That Changed Play — The Erector Set
he commute from New York City to New Haven by rail was tedious, at best, in 1911. Yet, it would be on one such trip that manufacturing mogul Alfred Carlton Gilbert would find the inspiration that would garner him a spot in toy making history. Taking his idea from the … Read More