Y2K: January 1, 2000
by Robert Gillis Published in The Foxboro Reporter 1/2000 Well, we made it. The lights are still on, the computers didn’t crash, the planes stayed in the sky, ATMs still…
Christmas 1999
by Robert Gillis Published in The Foxboro Reporter December 1999 Thankfully, the recent tragic fire at LaSallette Shrine didn’t prevent the annual spectacular Christmas Light display from going on as…
1999: Changing jobs and starting new adventures
by Robert Gillis Published in The Foxboro Reporter 11/1999 I recently spoke to Tom Fuller. While I’d never met the man in person, our columns often shared these same pages…
Foxboro Jaycees Haunted House 1999: Camp Fright
Introduction: From 1989-2007, the Foxboro Jaycees Haunted House was the largest not-for-profit Haunt in New England, our biggest fundraiser, an extremely popular event attended by thousands of people, and my…
Review: Bruce Springsteen at Boston Fleet Center 9/27/1999
by Robert Gillis Oh, man… Of the seven Bruce shows I’ve seen in my life, I think last night was the best (or second best) after Worcester 88. The fans…
Remembering John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr.
by Robert Gillis Published in The Foxboro Reporter July 1999 I was born just over a year after JFK’s assassination, so my memory of the man is only through history…
What was the Foxboro Jaycees Teddy Bear Transfer?
by Robert Gillis Published in The Foxboro Reporter Early 1999 There’s a terrific program going on here in town that you might not know about here—it’s called the Teddy Train.…
Weaving a web for Foxboro
by Robert Gillis Published in The Foxboro Reporter May 1999
Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, A Review
by Robert Gillis published in the Foxboro Reporter, May 1999 Of the eighty quadrillion reviews written or televised in the last three weeks about this eagerly awaited Star Wars prequel,…
FOUL launguage! – A tribute to Father Lawrance Corcoran
by Robert Gillis Published in The Foxboro Reporter April 1999 and the Boston City Paper 9/2007 Brace yourselves, I’m starting off today’s column with some very foul words.Accolade. Opulent. Arbitrary.…
Standing room only in church
by Robert Gillis Published in The Foxboro Reporter April 1999 Palm Sunday mass, and Saint Mary’s is filled beyond capacity this afternoon. There is literally a standing room only crowd.…
Foxboro Jaycees pancake breakfast 1999
by Robert Gillis Published in The Foxboro Reporter March 1999 Last year’s Foxboro Jaycee pancake breakfast brought some personal reflection. It seemed that my 1998 Reporter article persuading all to…
Remarkable Man, Remarkable Life, Remembering Gerry Rodman
by Robert Gillis Published in The Foxboro Reporter March 1999 He was one of the most generous people any of us will ever meet. More than one person has referred…
Two styles of parenting
by Robert Gillis Published in The Foxboro Reporter February 1999 and The Boston City Paper 6/2007 So our washing machine is broken, and I’m lugging three baskets of assorted clothes,…
Millennium’s coming!
By Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter 1/1/1999 Like the other six billion folks on the planet, the new millennium has been on my mind lately. You can’t help…