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extrapolated from a drawing by David Lance in the 1964 Comet Yearbook

July's AH looked at childhood as experienced by the earliest Baby Boomers - essentially, those who were part of the Class of 1964. It began with the latter 1940s, and more or less left us in the world that surrounded us when we were nine years old. This month we continue on through June 1964.

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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.

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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.

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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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