When Hell freezes over (or, how to endure three months of ice, snow and cold)
By Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro reporter January, 1997 The icy blast of the alarm clock jostled most of us out of our beds this morning. The browning Christmas…
1997 – Keep the Patriots in Foxboro — the open letter I wrote to Mr. Kraft
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter, 1/1997 Note: I’d been writing for the Reporter for only a year or so when I wrote this one — keeping the…
You just gotta believe!
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter, 12/1996 In a week filled with an office Christmas party, two family tree trimmings, a movie with friends, picking up our own…
Christmas Thoughts, 1996
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter, 12/1996 A note from Bob, 1/2014: This is one of my very first columns for the Reporter and nowhere near anything I…
Gun Show! (The Gun Show Loophole)
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter, 11/1996 and the Boston City Paper in revised format 11/2006 “…A DANGEROUS “gun show loophole” continues to allow criminals and terrorists to…
Review: Star Trek: First Contact
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter, 11/1996 “They invade our space, and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds, and we fall back. Not again. The line must…
Past or Future, Generosity Is Always The Best Present
by Robert GillisPublished In The Foxboro Reporter11/4/1996
Informed voters
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter, 11/1996 One of the best movies in recent memory to depict our nation’s chief executive was, “The American President,” starring Michael Douglas.…
Dark shadows; bright future: Jaycees haunted house demonstrates a sense of community
By Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro reporter, 9/1996 MEMORY LANE! THIS WAS MY FIRST COLUMN ABOUT THE FOXBORO JAYCEES HAUNTED HOUSE! We are one dozen brave souls, walking through…
This is an attempt to collect a debt!
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter 9/1996 The mail box was bursting with the usual bills, catalogs, and sweepstakes entry forms. I ignored the shiny letter that told…
Welcome Colin! My sister’s first baby is born, 8/8/96
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter, 8/1996 A few years back, I gave Mom a videocassette containing a montage of over sixty family photographs set to music. The…
Why memories can be discarded, but never thrown away
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter, 7/1996 The cellar was piled with things my father had discarded, but just couldn’t bear to throw away. Dad’s anniversary was last…
Seniors can show you secrets of eternal youth
By Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter,7/1996 It’s no secret to anyone who knows me that I have a great affection for seniors. Taking care of Nana for so…
Proud sponsors are nothing to be proud of
By Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro reporter, 7/1996 Historians note: I include this here to be complete; this was one of my very first columns for the paper and…
Push cart cuts the mustard — “The Common Dog” on Foxboro Common
By Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter 6/27/1996 One of the nicer aspects of taking a vacation and staying home to work on the new house is that I…