JUNE 2021





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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Ancient Hixtory at Hixnews.com

Issue

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2018

 

 

May

1805/Wencer.htm

1925: Hicksville builds its first true high school

June

1806/hixtory.htm

Hicksville flies service stars for men and women in WW 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

September

1809/hixtory.htm

A Hicksville athlete sets records and goes to the 1912 Olympics

October

1810/hixtory.htm

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

December

1812/hixtory.htm

Joys and perils sleighriding in Hicksville's years of big snows

2019

 

 

January

1901/Hixtory.htm

Some leading citizens riot, because a tail light was not lit

February

1902/Hixtory.htm

Vanderbilt Cup Races come to Hicksville in 1904, 1909, & 1910

March

1903/Hixtory.htm

A miscellany of unusual items from old Hicksville

April

1904/Hixtory.htm

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

May

1905/Hixtory.htm

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

June

1906/Hixtory.htm

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

July

1907/Hixtory.htm

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 in the years before World War I

October

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Cumulative Index

November

1911/Hixtory.htm

Racism flares as Vigilant Realty is picketed

December

1912/Hixtory.htm

Two Hicksville men at Pearl Harbor

2020

 

 

January

2001/Hixtory.htm

Bomb scares, and sometimes, real bombs

February

2002/Hixtory.htm

Mabel Farley arrives in Hicksville

March

2003/Hixtory.htm

Not Your Typical Schoolmarm

April

2004/Hixtory.htm

Hicksville's Triangle gets overwhelmed by suburban growth

May

2005/Hixtory.htm

1918: a pandemic hits, and the government does almost nothing

June

2006/Hixtory.htm

Businessman challenged to duel by husband of famed clairvoyant

July

2007/Hixtory.htm

Johann Heitz and Hicksville, plus a follow-up to the duel

August

2008/Hixtory.htm

Radio Finally Catches On

September

2009/Hixtory.htm

Grumman: Hicksville's Loudest Upstairs Neighbor

October

2010/Hixtory.htm

20,000 Seconds Over Hicksville

November

2011/Hixtory.htm

A last look at pre-commuter Hicksville

December

2012/Hixtory.htm

When the Big Tops used to come to Hicksville

2021

 

 

January

2101/Hixtory.htm

Herman Menge, first Fire Chief and more

February

2102/Hixtory.htm

Hicksville's 1919 Memorial Day Parade falls apart

March

2103/Hixtory.htm

Les Hix: Hicksville in the Great Depression

April

2104/Hixtory.htm

Two Sides of Neil O'Doherty

May

2105/Hixtory.htm

1898: Dedication & Declamation at the Union School