Due to personal circumstances, there is no new article for this month. Instead, below is a complete list, with links, of all the articles that have appeared here over the last three years.
Note that in 2021, despite the combined Newsletter for April and May, separate Ancient Hixtories were published.
Ciao,
Ron
| Ancient Hixtory at Hixnews.com | |
|---|---|
| Issue/Link | Description |
| May 2018 | 1925: Hicksville builds its first true high school |
| Jun 2018 | Hicksville flies service stars for men and women in WW I |
| Jul 2018 | The story of Mitchel Field and the planes it sent over our heads |
| Aug 2018 | Hicksville's successful - but short-lived - trolley line |
| Sep 2018 | A Hicksville athlete sets records and goes to the 1912 Olympics |
| Oct 2018 | Republic Aircraft and the planes it sent over our heads |
| Nov 2018 | The Ku Klux Klan is welcomed in the high school auditorium |
| Dec 2018 | Joys and perils sleighriding in Hicksville's years of big snows |
| Jan 2019 | Some leading citizens riot, because a tail light was not lit |
| Feb 2019 | Vanderbilt Cup Races come to Hicksville in 1904, 1909, and 1910 |
| Mar 2019 | A miscellany of unusual items from old Hicksville |
| Apr 2019 | Mike Caruso's story, from dirt tracks to posh salons in Paris |
| May 2019 | The stories of the three Hicksville men who died in World War I |
| Jun 2019 | Beetles bring a blight that shuts down Hicksville's largest factory |
| Jul 2019 | A brutal 19th century murder in Hicksville finally gets solved |
| Aug 2019 | It's 1910, and Hicksville finally can start becoming a suburb |
| Sep 2019 | Promoting suburban growth in the years before World War I |
| Oct 2019 | No issue. Cumulative index. |
| Nov 2019 | Racism flares as Vigilant Realty is picketed |
| Dec 2019 | Two Hicksville men at Pearl Harbor |
| Jan 2020 | Bomb scares, and sometimes, real bombs |
| Feb 2020 | Mabel Farley arrives in Hicksville |
| Mar 2020 | Not Your Typical Schoolmarm |
| Apr 2020 | Hicksville's Triangle gets overwhelmed by suburban growth |
| May 2020 | 1918: a pandemic hits, and the government does almost nothing |
| Jun 2020 | Businessman challenged to duel by husband of famed clairvoyant |
| Jul 2020 | Johann Heitz and Hicksville, plus a follow-up to the duel |
| Aug 2020 | Radio Finally Catches On |
| Sep 2020 | Grumman: Hicksville's Loudest Upstairs Neighbor |
| Oct 2020 | 20,000 Seconds Over Hicksville |
| Nov 2020 | A last look at pre-commuter Hicksville |
| Dec 2020 | When the Big Tops used to come to Hicksville |
| Jan 2021 | Herman Menge, first Fire Chief and more |
| Feb 2021 | Hicksville's 1919 Memorial Day Parade falls apart |
| Mar 2021 | Les Hix: Hicksville in the Great Depression |
| Apr 2021 | Two Sides of Neil O'Doherty |
| May 2021 | 1898: Dedication & Declamation at the Union School |
