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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
A Family Tradition
It may be one of the most common gifts a man gives to his son. Perhaps it is not even so much a gift, as a rite of passage, a way of saying “now you are a man.” I remember when my husband gave our son Sean his first pocket … Read More
Drawing the Line . . .
What do you get when you combine a U.S. President, four Mississippi bear hunters, a Brooklyn toy maker and The Washington Post? You get one of the most adorable of all American icons, the teddy bear. As the story goes, our 26th President, Theodore Roosevelt, traveled to Mississippi to assist … Read More
Lost in the 60s
It’s too cold for an evening walk, too frozen to garden, the garage sales don’t start for another four months and Marsh Monopoly is really starting to get on my nerves! It’s winter time in Indiana, and I’m bored. My solution? Time to give the family room a make-over! Preferring … Read More
Cabin Fever?
By definition cabin fever is “boredom, restlessness or irritability that results from lack of environmental stimulation from a prolonged stay in a confined indoor area.” That pretty much sizes it up for me by mid-January. Once the tree is down and the tax accountant has all the needed paperwork, there … Read More
Un-Decking the Halls
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