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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
Take a Seat
“A chair’s function is not just to provide a place to sit…it is a medium for self-expression” — Evan Davis In the Victorian era of the late 1880s, the elegance of a platform rocker graced the homes of the affluent. As we crossed over into the early part of the … Read More
What’s It Worth?
If I have heard it once, I have hear it a hundred times, “I looked it up online” (sigh). As the Millennials hold to their minimalist standards and their frustrated parents struggle to thin down a lifetime of accumulation, more and more people are turning to the Internet to find … Read More
Perfume Bottles
Collected by their designer, era of production, or for their aesthetic appeal, perfume bottles are one of the few forms of glassware that continue to hold strong in today’s soft market. Incredibly enough, while they can be extremely pricey, they can also be unearthed digging through box lots at estate … Read More
The Artistry of Louis Comfort Tiffany
Conversational English has become peppered with generic terms which are actually trademarked. For example: Paper tissues are collectively referred to as Kleenex, my grandmother called all refrigerators a Frigidaire, and many of us refer to all leaded glass lamps as Tiffany. The problem arises when we mentally transpose the generic … Read More