Kevin Fitzpatrick

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Life On Governors Island in 1890

Summer tours of Governors Island have resumed. My book The Governors Island Explorer’s Guide (Globe Pequot Press) continues to be the first and only guide to the Island. Here is a history story that I like to talk about when leading walking […]

Kevin FitzpatrickMay 22, 2025May 22, 2025

News Research

Governors Island Lawn Parties History, 1900-2025

The Jazz Age Lawn Party created by Michael Arenella carries on a long tradition on Governors Island going back more than 150 years to social events hosted by the U.S. Army. Just as Michael and his Dreamland Orchestra draw big crowds to […]

Kevin FitzpatrickApril 23, 2025

News Podcast

Episode 49: Broadway, Gatsby, New Friends

It is the return of the Big Show! After a little hiatus, we are back to chat about all things New York City. Joanna has turned into a major theatergoer, when she is not holding down the fort at Doc Holliday’s on […]

Kevin FitzpatrickApril 8, 2025April 8, 2025

News

Centennial of The New Yorker Walking Tours

February 21 is the centennial of the cover date of the first issue of The New Yorker. It is also International Tour Guide Day. So I am going to be offering my two most popular walking tours to celebrate. Yes, these are […]

Kevin FitzpatrickJanuary 7, 2025January 8, 2025

Algonquin Round Table New York by Jane Kratochvil

News

Lucasfilm and Me

It seems like an alternate reality that I am in some way linked to Lucasfilm. Around 20 years ago, Lucasfilm reached out to me, to see if I would be a talking head in a mini-documentary about the Algonquin Round Table. Why? […]

Kevin FitzpatrickJanuary 7, 2025January 7, 2025

Books News

Author Talk July 30 in Bucks County, PA

Dorothy Parker was among many New Yorkers who found a second home in beautiful Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in the 1930s. Just 82 miles southwest of Times Square, the rolling hills and farmhouses drew the city dwellers during the Depression. Famous Manhattanites such […]

Kevin FitzpatrickJuly 24, 2024

News Podcast

Podcast Episode 48: Planning and Beer Taps

We have reached episode 48 on our comeback tour. The ramp up today continues as we chat about our upcoming guests and plans for the show, including upcoming trips and planned future guests. Among those we name check are past guests are […]

Kevin FitzpatrickJuly 22, 2024July 22, 2024

Podcast

Podcast Episode 47: Return from the 27-Month Break

The podcast is finally back. Joanna and Kevin’s Big Show took an extended break since the last episode in March 2022. Episode 47 here, and we are catching up and planning big things for the show. For Kevin, it was 27 month […]

Kevin FitzpatrickJune 13, 2024June 13, 2024

Dorothy Parker Complete Broadway, 1918-1923

Books News

Dorothy Parker Complete Broadway Turns 10

This week Dorothy Parker Complete Broadway, 1918-1923, turns ten years old. It is almost hard to believe that a book I researched for five years has been out for a decade. As I say when I give talks about the book, here […]

Kevin FitzpatrickMay 6, 2024May 7, 2024

Franklin P. Adams with his sons, Anthony and Tim. (FPA Collection).

News Research

New Project for 2024 is From the Adams Family

During the last few months I have been processing the papers from the estate of Franklin P. Adams. He is someone I have written a lot about over the last 20 years; he was the dean of the Algonquin Round Table and […]

Kevin FitzpatrickDecember 14, 2023December 14, 2023

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