RYE -- "Language of Hats: From Poke Bonnets to Pillboxes, From Top Hats to Homburgs," display of 80 hats, hat boxes and hat pins from the museum's collection.
As the voyage's so-called scientific person, he would collect masses of rocks, fossils, animals, and plants, periodically shipping his specimens to Cambridge in containers ranging from barrels to pillboxes.
It sponsors lectures, organizes exhibitions (currently "The Language of Hats: From Poke Bonnets to Pillboxes, From Top Hats to Homburgs") and oversees a collection that includes 4,000 photographs, ceramics, tools, textiles, store signs and furniture.
RYE -- "Language of Hats: From Poke Bonnets to Pillboxes, From Top Hats to Homburgs," display of more than 80 hats from the museum's collection; exploring how hats made statements about the wearer and his or her status (or lack of it) in society.
PROSPECT HEIGHTS Register That Old Jug For Appraisal by Experts Collectors of anything, from paperweights to pillboxes, Americana or jewelry -- or those who wonder how such objects are appraised -- are welcome to "Collecting Marvels," this Saturday's appraisal day at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
But "what does get us into hairy, difficult emotional ground," Ms. Meyers said, is when her mother's daily routine changes and her children neglect to reprogram the pillbox to keep up with the shift.
This was especially the case in teaching patients how to use a pillbox to sort multiple medications, and in offering helpful hints, such as taking medications all at once and at the same time of day, if possible.
In these instances, participants are given single dose pillboxes, or "take home doses," for each unobserved dose, and are asked to return the pillbox to the nurses at the next clinic visit, whether or not they have taken the pills.
But common sense tells us we cannot count on advanced medicine if the patent system does not protect the staggering investment required to invent, test, prove and deliver new cures to your pillbox.
Soon afterward, Colonel Merritt sprang from the shelter of the house and sprinted to a pillbox, his men following reluctantly.
