OCTOBER 2019

I regret that family circumstances have prevented me from preparing a new article for Hixnews this month. I believe that "Ancient Hixtory" will return in November.  In the Interim, perhaps these direct links to all the earlier articles will be of use to some readers.

Ron Wencer

Ancient Hixtory at Hixnews.com

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2018

 

 

May

1805/Wencer.htm

1925: Hicksville goes beyond teaching Grade 10 and needs a new high school

June

1806/hixtory.htm

Hicksville flies Service Stars for its men and women in World War I

July

1807/hixtory.htm

The story of Mitchel Field and the planes it sent over our heads

August

1808/hixtory.htm

Hicksville's successful - but short-lived - trolley line into the City

September

1809/hixtory.htm

A Hicksville athlete sets records and goes to Stockholm for the 1912 Olympics

October

1810/hixtory.htm

The story of Republic Aircraft and the planes it sent over our heads

November

1811/hixtory.htm

The Ku Klux Klan is welcomed in the high school auditorium in 1925

December

1812/hixtory.htm

The joys and perils of sleighriding in Hicksville 's years of big snows

2019

 

 

January

1901/Hixtory.htm

Some leading citizens of Hicksville riot - because a tail light was not lit

February

1902/Hixtory.htm

The Vanderbilt Cup Races come to Hicksville in 1904, 1909, and 1910

March

1903/Hixtory.htm

A miscellany of unusual items from the Hicksville of a century ago

April

1904/Hixtory.htm

Mike Caruso's unique story, from dirt tracks to posh salons in Paris

May

1905/Hixtory.htm

The stories of the three Hicksville men who died in France in World War I

June

1906/Hixtory.htm

Beetles bring a blight that shuts down Hicksville 's largest factory

July

1907/Hixtory.htm

After a false start, a brutal 19th century murder in Hicksville finally gets solved

August

1908/Hixtory.htm

It's 1910, and Hicksville finally can start becoming a suburb

September

1909/Hixtory.htm

Promoting suburban growth (or maybe other ideas) before WW I