26+ years of published Op/Ed columns, professional photography, my first book and more from the 28 known galaxies!
Today in history: May 29, , Along with myself, David MacDonald, Robert Farrell (RIP), John Sebastian (sorry we lost touch, your friendship was epic), and about 200 classmates graduated from…
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter May 31, 2020 I grew up in a very poor section of Dorchester. The Parish was (and is) quite diverse — White,…
By Robert Gillis Published in the Boston City Paper, 3/2014 (Written at the request of a great group of people on the FaceBook group “ST KEVIN PARISH & SCHOOL /…
The Boston City Paper is a terrific weekly newspaper and I am grateful to editor Paul Feeney for allowing me to be an unpaid contributor since 2006. His generosity with…
By Robert Gillis Published in the Boston City Paper 7/2012 and the Foxboro Reporter 8/2012 ived my first 25 years in Dorchester, and while I have moved away, I am…
by Robert Gillis Published in the Boston City Paper July 2006 As a child in Dorchester, my career goal for years was to run a small store, because that’s what…
In loving memory of Father John Joseph Kierce, pastor of Saint Kevin Church, Uphams Corner, Dorchester for 50 years by Robert Gillis published in the Foxboro Reporter, 3/2006 and the…
by Robert Gillis Published in The Foxboro Reporter 6/2003 and the Boston City paper in 2006 It’s Friday afternoon, the last day of my vacation, and I’m feeling nostalgic. I…
by Robert Gillis published in the Foxboro Reporter 2/1998 2/2003 and the Boston City Paper 2/2013. There are images that stay with you. Throughout your life, some remain indelible. Certain…
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter 9/2000 and the Boston City Paper 1/2007 Recently I was out driving with the family, and Mom suggested a tour of the…
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter, 7/1997 and in the Boston City Paper 6/2006 A story ran in the Foxboro Reporter a few weeks back that I read…
Historians note, 2015: after I wrote my first full-length piece about the Foxboro senior center in early 1996, this piece was my very first “regular” op Ed for the Foxboro…