Article Archives: What’s in the Attic?

Sweets for My Sweet

February 12, 2015 | by Linda Hamer Kennett

Once again the drug store shelves are lined with the inevitable red heart-shaped boxes that tell us it’s time to give candy to those we love. Nougat, coconut, or chocolate cream, it is no doubt the contents, rather than the packaging, that is the object of our attention. But to … Read More

A Family Tradition

January 29, 2015 | by Linda Hamer Kennett

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 . . .

January 22, 2015 | by Linda Hamer Kennett

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

January 15, 2015 | by Linda Hamer Kennett

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?

January 8, 2015 | by Linda Hamer Kennett

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