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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
Thinking Outside the Box
Question. What do three Milwaukee business men, a group of PTA moms and a singing cowboy have in common? They are all a part of the history of that little container we call the lunchbox. The moms of the late 1800s originated the idea of the school lunch packed in … Read More
There’s More than Corn in Indiana
“When the frost is on the pumpkin, and the fodder’s in the shock, and you hear the kyouck gobble of the struttin’ turkey-cock. Oh it’s then the time a feller is a feeling at his best. When he rises in the morning from a night of peaceful rest…” With these … Read More
Back to Grandma’s Kitchen
While I appreciate the conveniences of a modern kitchen as much as the next woman, if you look behind my cabinet doors you will find my true passion is very little 2014 ……….and very much 1914! Kitchen collectibles have long been one of my guilty pleasures, and if you share … Read More
Collectible Sneakers
As a Mom looking back on my son’s life I remember many firsts. I can still picture like it was yesterday the day he won his first swim meet, his first crush on a girl and his first broken heart. I remember his first car, his first smile without his … Read More
What’s in a Name?
There was a time when it was all so simple. An antique mall was just that, a building where you purchased antiques. In the antique malls of 2014 you will still find ample antiquity (objects that are 100 years old or older) but, on an ever increasing scale, you will … Read More