Karen Q's Patriot Tours NYC

Karen Q's Patriot Tours NYC History like you never learned it in school! See us on the Travel Channels' Mysteries at the Museum! No two tours are exactly the same!

Since 2005, we've been leading our customers through the most historic parts of the city, along streets laid in the 1700’s and into national historic landmarks and are a daily presence in Lower Manhattan! We know the story of every nook and cranny of the Southern tip of the Island and we can’t wait to share it with you. Our Research
To prepare for our tours we comb through hundreds of archival doc

uments. Newspapers, broadsides, pamphlets, personal papers and prints all go into our storytelling of the city’s past. We visit research libraries and historic sites throughout the region to flesh out our understanding of events and people. We virtually live in the time period, recreating it in a way that allows us to answer all of your questions, no matter how obscure. Your Tour Experience
We keep our group sizes small to give you personal attention. Each tour is a unique experience as we tailor it to meet the needs of your group. As the tour moves along we pay attention to your questions and what you seem most interested in so that we change the narrative accordingly. Plus, if you have an ancestor or specific person or event you’d like to know about, let us know before the tour and we’ll be sure to include it for you. Your Guide
Karen Q has spent nearly fifteen years immersed in NYC’s early history. What began as a hobby, reading original documents, became a passion when she learned the stories of people long forgotten who did amazing things to create the city and nation we have today. In 2005 she began the Revolutionary Era walking tour to honor those great NYers. At the request of enthusiastic customers she added the Civil War Tour and the Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Tour. Karen has spoken at meetings of the NYC Chapter of the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) and is a regular speaker for the Queens Public Library. She is also an historical consultant to The Travel Channel’s “Mysteries at the Museum”, Fordham University Radio WFUV and AM New York (newspaper).

06/30/2025

Patriotic Pictures had the pleasure of attending the West Pittston, PA Historical Society's First to Fall annual event yesterday at Historic Jenkins-Harding Cemetery. This event commemorates the first residents killed in the 1778 Battle of Wyoming, PA.

A Sunday afternoon in 1778.
06/30/2025

A Sunday afternoon in 1778.

I've been so busy with historical events here that I missed the anniversary yesterday of the Ex*****on of Thomas Hickey ...
06/29/2025

I've been so busy with historical events here that I missed the anniversary yesterday of the Ex*****on of Thomas Hickey on June 28, 1776.

June 28, 1776 - The Ex*****on of Thomas Hickey on the Bowery Lane.

"In a field between the Colonels McDougall and Huntington's camp, near the Bowery-lane (in the presence of near twenty thousand spectators) a soldier belonging to his Excellency General Washington's guards, for mutiny and conspiracy; being one of those, who formed, and was soon to have put in ex*****on, that horrid plot of assassinating the Staff officers, blowing up the magazines, and securing the passes of the town on the arrival of the hungry ministerial myrmidons." NY Mercury

Just as Washington has dispensed with one problem, more arise. Maj-Gen Heath reports, "The militia were called in to reinforce the army at New York." This is in preparation for an expected invasion of British troops, which Washington fears can come any day.

Arrest warrants have been issued by the NY Colonial Assembly for prominent Tories (Loyalists). Many have fled into the woods to hide.

A few days before, Aaron Burr was promoted to Aide-de-Camp to General Israel Putnam.

Civilians are encouraged to leave the island as soon as possible. Many have started and are crowding boats docked at the East River. They leave their possessions behind on the dock if they are too many to fit.

The city is in chaos!

TONIGHT 9pm ET - History With Mrs Q!Tonight on History with Mrs. Q, I will be talking about July 4th and the Declaration...
06/29/2025

TONIGHT 9pm ET - History With Mrs Q!

Tonight on History with Mrs. Q, I will be talking about July 4th and the Declaration of Independence. How did it come to be? What does it say? What purpose does it serve? Who were some of the signers, and what motivated them to risk their lives to sign it?

Join me at 9 pm ET.

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This Sunday at 2 pm! Remembering the first to be killed in the Battle of Wyoming, 1778.
06/23/2025

This Sunday at 2 pm! Remembering the first to be killed in the Battle of Wyoming, 1778.

We are less than a week away from the 2025 First to Fall at the Jenkins Harding Cemetery - Wyoming Ave and Linden St. - Sunday June 29, 2025

Join us for the 2025 event honoring our Revolutionary War patriots. The program this year will feature a dramatic reenactment of the events in the days just before the Battle of Wyoming. We are pleased to once again feature the 24th Connecticut Militia reenactors to First to Fall.

The program begins at 2:00pm is free and open to all.

06/23/2025

Join us Friday, July 4th, 10am at the Monument and share in commemorating the Battle of Wyoming.

Tonight at 9pm ET on my RBN broadcast, I'll be talking about the 250th Anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill. Why sho...
06/22/2025

Tonight at 9pm ET on my RBN broadcast, I'll be talking about the 250th Anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill. Why should we pay tribute to something that happened so long ago?

Also: Adam Smith's warnings in "An Inquiry Into The Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" concerning empires going into debt over wars fought for the pleasure of urban elites.

Join me at 9 pm ET at republicbroadcasting.org/listen-live

Or, by phone:

605.313.0163
701.801.3663

T-Mobile: 605-781-4582
AT&T: 605-531-3016
Verizon: 605-562-5111
Sprint & OTHERS: 641-741-0030

Great scenes today from the Battle of Bunker Hill!
06/22/2025

Great scenes today from the Battle of Bunker Hill!

06/20/2025

Mrs Q discusses the British Empire and how to defeat it by using its weaknesses, as explained by Adam Smith.

Britain, overextended and suffering from debt, has entered a war with America that it can not afford.

Adam Smith - Wealth of Nations - Of Public Debts - 1776"In great empires, the people who live in the capital, and in the...
06/17/2025

Adam Smith - Wealth of Nations - Of Public Debts - 1776

"In great empires, the people who live in the capital, and in the provinces remote from the scene of action, feel, many of them, scarce any inconveniency from the war, but enjoy, at their ease, the amusement of reading in the newspapers the exploits of their own fleets and armies. To them this amusement compensates the small difference between the taxes which they pay on account of the war, and those which they had been accustomed to pay in time of peace.

They are commonly dissatisfied with the return of peace, which puts an end to their amusement, and to a thousand visionary hopes of conquest and national glory, from longer continuance of the war.

The return of peace, indeed, seldom relieves them from the greater part of the taxes imposed during the war. These are mortgaged for the interest of the debt contracted, in order to carry it on."

Yes, carry it on to your children and grandchildren, and their children.

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