Hundreds of pieces of history
I'm a news junkie, and a jigsaw puzzle junkie as well. So it was the best of both worlds for me over the weekend, when I passed a few hours assembling a 500-piece puzzle showing the front page of The New York Times after the Titanic sank. 
Later I was browsing on the NY Times Store Web site (I've got to get the puzzles from when we landed on the moon and when JFK was assassinated!), when I came across this great gift idea.
You can have a 400-piece jigsaw puzzle created, featuring a front page of The New York Times on any date from 1888 to present. What a great idea for birthdays, anniversaries or just as a memento of a historic event.
Comments
Are you a hired sales person for the NY Times? or a paid spokesperson??? I just thought I"d give you a hard time, since I never do.
Posted by: David | April 23, 2007 10:01 PM
I'm more of a Rubik's Cube-type slash Suduko slash crossword puzzle fan myself, but I'll admit your historical jigsaw puzzles are pretty cool.
Just one question that's got me puzzled (tee-hee)(: So what do you plan to do with the assembled puzzles? Will you glue them together and put them on display or will you take them apart and stick all those pieces back into their boxes?
In any case, have fun gettin' jiggy with it!
Posted by: Ann | April 23, 2007 10:26 PM
Dave: No, I'm not getting any kickbacks from the NY Times.
Ann: Some puzzles I might take apart and put together again later. But I tend to buy ones that I'd put on a wall when I'm done. I plan to put the Titanic one on the wall here in my office. There's one I did when I was pregnant with my daughter -- a teddy bear kneeling to say his goodnight prayers -- that hangs above her bed in her room.
Posted by: Lisa Maria Boyles | April 24, 2007 9:29 AM