Boston Red Sox prove we are BOSTON STRONG with World Series win at Fenway
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and Boston City Paper 11/2013 “This is for you, Boston. You guys deserve it… We’ve been through a lot this year and…
Celebrating the remarkable clergy of Saint Mary’s Foxboro
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and Boston City Paper, 5/2013 Each year around this time, I’ve made it a tradition to write a piece about spirituality, about…
The National Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette in Attleboro — it’s more than just Christmas Lights
Note: Originally published 11/28/2012, and one of the most important pieces I have ever written, please note the following: The 2012 concerts noted here have obviously taken place; CLICK HERE…
Reflections at Ground Zero eleven days after September 11, 2001
by Robert Gillis Published in The Foxboro Reporter 9/2001 (Note: My editor said that this was the best piece I’d ever written, and ran it on the front page of…
Mother and child reunion survives passage of time; my wife finds her mother after 22 years
by Robert GillisPublished in The Foxboro Reporter 3/2000 and the Boston City Paper 8/2007. I consider this the best piece I have EVER written. The scene was completely ordinary. Looking…