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December 2021: Edward G. Rave, Apothecary and Doctor

Hicksville flourished from the 1880s through the 1910s, largely due to its prosperous and skilled German immigrants. Among them was Edward G. Rave, apothecary and doctor. His day-to-day life offers insight into the years that some regard as Hicksville's Golden Age.
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March 2026: Open Secrets - Long Islanders and the Antebellum Slave Trade
IntroductionIn January 1861, as winter set in, a writer at the Huntington Long-Islander newspaper looked back a few months, to an autumn day when a few friends strolled to a school fair. At Cold Spring Harbor, they were struck by the beauty of the bay, and by a “pretty” sailing ship that lay at anchor. Then the tableau was spoiled; they learned that the old whaler was taking on supplies for the slave trade.
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