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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

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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

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If you attended Hicksville High between the late 1960s and 1980, you knew of the English Department's Neil O'Doherty (1933-1980).

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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.

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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

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Hicksville grew substantially in the late 1800s, attracting newcomers from many places, including Indiana, Illinois, and (of course) Brooklyn. Many of them had served in the Civil War, and they saw the post-war years as a time to try to make new starts.

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