Wonderful articles about the history of Hicksville, researched and written by Ron Wencer. This complete monthly series spans 4 years, from May 2018 until April 2022. Enjoy!
extrapolated from a drawing by David Lance in the 1964 Comet Yearbook
Normally, AH focuses on history in the context of a single person, event, movement, etc. This time around is different: it looks more broadly at life, from birth through high school, as experienced by the earliest Baby Boomers (who happened to correspond to the Class of 1964) and their families.
Click here to continue reading July 2021: An Arbitrary Look Back at Our World, 1946-1964 (Part I)
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
Click here to continue reading June 2021: Another Look Back at Ancient Hixtory
Union School, Hicksville, as it stood 1898 - c.1908
The image above was derived from two online digital images in
the Hicksville Public Library Collection at New York Heritage.
The first bears identifier M1616; the second (no identifier
listed) is essentially a mirror image of M1616.
Click here to continue reading May 2021: Dedicating Hicksville's New School in 1898
If you attended Hicksville High between the late 1960s and 1980, you knew of the English Department's Neil O'Doherty (1933-1980).
Click here to continue reading April 2021: Two Sides of Neil O'Doherty
Look back, ninety years back, and you can see a Long Island village to which the Red Cross is sending boxcars, filled to the brim with 24-lb bags of flour, so that people can better fend off starvation. Although you won't easily notice them, a few speakeasies and secret distilleries are tucked away here and there.
Click here to continue reading March 2021: Les Hix - Hicksville Endures the Depression's Misery
May 30, 1919: A Civil War veteran, dressed in his old Zouave
uniform, proudly holds aloft a tattered American flag as he
watches Hicksville's Memorial Day parade - such as it is.
The scene is Broadway, facing northeast, towards the corner
at East Marie Street.
Image based on a Hicksville Public Library Historic Photograph,
found online in the New York State Digital Collections; more
information about this image will be found in the Appendices
Click here to continue reading February 2021: A Disgraceful Parade