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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
$68 and an Idea
The great surge of adventurous Americans who rushed to California to pan for gold in the mid-1800s brought with them very few personal possessions. They did, however bring with them great opportunity for the area businessmen. One such industrious young man was 24 year old Loeb Strauss. Known to his … Read More
Heyward-Wakefield: Elegant Simplicity
Heywood Brothers built their first chair in the family barn in 1826. Over the next decade they grew into one of the most respected furniture factories in the U.S., challenged only by the opening of the Wakefield Rattan Company in 1855. After 40 years as each other’s top competitor the … Read More
Give Me That Old Time Rock ‘N Roll
The first electric guitar, invented in 1934, had an annoying hum which prevented it from being played at high a volume. Sixteen years later the Gibson Guitar Corporation, in collaboration with jazz great Les Paul, used double-coiled wires to cancel the hum and introduce to the world the Gibson Telecaster. … Read More
Buttons . . . The Simple Necessity
It is one of little things that we never take much note of, but how many times a day do we rely on the efficiency of the tiny little disc we call a button? Unlike many collectibles that take years to become established, buttons were instantly collectible. At first they … Read More
Watch For the Signs
It was a small round sign, no more than sixteen inches in diameter. Time had not been kind to it. The rim was rusted, it was slightly dented and there was a hole where it had been attached to the wall. I looked at it hanging in the laundry room … Read More