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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
This is the Year We Get Organized
The gifts are gone from under the tree, there is scarcely enough ham left to make a pot of soup, and you now realize that you should have asked Santa for a new bathroom scale because the old one is weighing five pounds heavier that it did last month. Yes, … Read More
A Right Jolly Old Elf — Santa Collectibles
Santa Claus, as we know him today, first appeared in the 1823 Clement C. Moore poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” where he is described as “chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf.” This figure was popularized in 1863 with a series of illustrations by Thomas Nast that appeared … Read More
Christmas Yard Art
There are things that simply must be in place for it to be Christmas in my mind: the living Nativity at church, cookie baking with my grandsons, a “good” cup of eggnog and my neighbor’s yard full of blow mold holiday figures. Blow mold lawn ornaments have been with us … Read More
A Professor, A Spruce Tree and a Small Boy
The Christmas of 1835 found Harvard professor Charles Follen yearning for his German homeland. Although his life’s work as an educator and political activist would earn him many distinctions, he is most fondly remembered for his actions that Christmas Eve. Keeping with a 200 year old German tradition, he brought … Read More
Capodimonte: True Italian art or QVC special?
Capodimonte, literally translated, “The top of the hill,” is the name given to the most delicate of all Italian porcelains. It was produced with soft-paste porcelains of only the highest grade by the top Italian artist of the day. The subject matter was drawn from nature with each piece requiring … Read More