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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
Heavy Metal
From 1865 until the late 1950s, the Griswold Manufacturing Company of Erie, Penn. made cast iron implements for use in the home. Their selection of skillets, muffin pans, roasters, bread molds, waffle irons, and kettles, are as serviceable today as they were a hundred years ago, making them one of … Read More
Going, Going, Gone!
Wanting to sell your unwanted belongings? Thinking of sending them to an auction? Depending on who you ask, the auction experience can run the gamut from incredible to down right heartbreaking. So how do you assure a positive experience if you select auction as the way to liquidate your unneeded … Read More
Able to Leap Tall Buildings in a Single Bound
If someone were to refer to you as a pannapictagraphist would you: A. need to see a doctor? B. start a diet immediately? or C. confess to a priest and never ever do that again? You most likely wouldn’t do any of the these because you would be too busy … Read More
A Boy and His Dog
One of my earliest recollections of shoe shopping (an addiction I’ve never kicked) was a trip to Leader’s Shoe Store on the square in Greensburg, Indiana. Mom would take my sister and I there each August for new school shoes. While the selection was plentiful, the only ones I wanted … Read More
For the Love of Ghosts & Goblins
As a child in the 1950s, Halloween was a time for homemade costumes, trick or treat, decorating the neighbor’s trees with toilet paper and wonderful parties where we bobbed for apples and played spin the bottle when the adults weren’t looking! But if we go back to early 1900s America, … Read More