Articles Filed Under: Antiques

Summertime Junkin’

July 25, 2013 | by Linda Hamer Kennett

Find yourself a little short on cash this summer? Thinking that vacation is just not gonna happen? Well, before you put away the luggage, you might consider a day trip or even a weekend getaway to one of the great midwest antique shows only a few hours drive from central … Read More

It’s Question and Answer Time!

July 11, 2013 | by Linda Hamer Kennett

The best part of writing this column for the past 15 years has been the e-mails, phone calls and one-on-one conversations I have with my readers. You arouse my curiosity, challenge my memory and send me scurrying to the computer for research on a regular basis. It was my greatest … Read More

Turkey, Tinsel, and Toy Trains

December 7, 2012 | by Linda Hamer Kennett

Even though we may only realize it in retrospect, children often display behavior very early in life that points to their destiny. In the early 1890s, 7-year-old Joshua Lionel Cowen whittled a miniature locomotive from a scrap of wood and attempted to fit it with a tiny engine — and … Read More