Article Archives: What’s in the Attic?

For the Love of Ghosts & Goblins

October 16, 2014 | by Linda Hamer Kennett

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

Thinking Outside the Box

October 9, 2014 | by Linda Hamer Kennett

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

October 2, 2014 | by Linda Hamer Kennett

“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

September 25, 2014 | by Linda Hamer Kennett

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

September 18, 2014 | by Linda Hamer Kennett

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