Each summer, I go to the Appalachian Mountain Clubs Echo Lake Camp, Mt. Desert Island, Acadia National Park, Me for a week of hiking. I always bring a large batch of puzzles for the guests at the camp to assemble during the week, and give a presentation on the history of jigsaw puzzles showing examples from our collection. This past summer at Camp during the week of August 21-28, I focused my talk on our growing collection of opera scene puzzles. However, the evening leaders for that week, Mark & Doreen Gamell then turned the display into a contest as to who could best identify the operas, composers, scenes and characters depicted in the puzzles. This proved a challenge to the audience, but by combining forces, several teams did quite well with the winners being Herb & Ellen Kingsbury of Kittery Point, ME.
Puzzles shown: