Why Do Jigsaw Puzzles Fascinate Cincinnati? - Cincinnati Magazine
Cincinnati Magazine March 2, 2021 Jigsaw puzzles were as hard to find as toilet paper throughout 2020, as Americans looked for anything to entertain us during the pandemic’s lockdowns. Amy Pepe of the Geneva (New York) Historical Society says this current fascination is actually the third jigsaw puzzle craze, and Cincinnati shows the same pattern, with locals jumping on the puzzle bandwagon all three times. The whole family, including the baby, the dog and the cat, took up jigsaw puzzles in 1909, according to this Cincinnati Post cartoon. Complicated puzzles that year usually contained fewe...
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