Lifelong Cos Cob resident Bill Cameron, will present his program on “The Great Medicine Era” on Saturday, February 18, at 2 p.m., in the Greenwich Library Meeting Room.
Cameron is an avid glass collector with a vast collection of medicine bottles. In researching his bottles, he developed an interest in the history of medicine peddlers, a time before modern medicine when doctors were scarce and exotic elixirs were sold to cure ailments real and imagined. He ties the hobby into genealogical research. In the mid 1970s, Cameron invented and marketed a “Bottle Hunt” game through Bloomingdale’s and mail order.
Cameron is a 1959 graduate of Greenwich High School. From 1959 to 1962, he served on the guided missile cruiser USS Little Rock. Cameron worked as a mechanical foreman and safety instructor for Metro-North Railroad for 39 years. An active member of the community, Cameron founded the Cos Cob School’s father group, has served as chairman of the Cos Cob School May Fair and on the town’s Shellfish Commission. Cameron is also the past President of the Greenwich Antique Bottle Collector’s Club. One of his hobbies, painting, resulted in his portrayal of the USS Little Rock on display at the Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park in Buffalo, NY.
