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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
The Farmer’s Almanac
Unique in content and inexplicably accurate, the “Old Farmer’s Almanac” stands as the oldest continuously published periodical in North America. This little book was first published by Robert B. Thomas in 1792 under the name “The Farmer’s Almanac.” Originally intended to be a regional publication, only 3,000 copies were printed. … Read More
The Music Goes Around and Around
This column first appeared in July 2012. “Sunday, Monday, happy days. Tuesday Wednesday, happy days. Thursday, Friday, happy days………groovin’ all week with you.” With these lyrics the hit sitcom Happy Days came bounding into our homes from 1974-1984 and as we watched the opening credits many of us saw a … Read More
Grill Plates
This column first appeared in November 2011. Long before the advent of the Happy Meal, before you could super-size, even before the drive-through (there was a time before the drive through?), there was a deal to be had at the local eatery, and it was called the “Blue Plate Special.” … Read More
What’s In a Name?
This column first appeared in October 2013. The world of antiquity has a language all it’s own and as those of you who travel that world can attest, if you are going to venture into the territory, you’d best to know the language. So let’s take a look at a … Read More
Make it a Vintage Halloween
In the early 1900s, Martin Luther Beistle was running a small, but successful, company that made calendars and artificial plants for hotels and commercial concerns in Pittsburgh. Life was good, the bills were paid and many would have been content to leave things as they were. But Martin had a … Read More