26+ years of published Op/Ed columns, professional photography, my first book and more from the 28 known galaxies!
By Robert Gillis There have been countless adaptations of Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol” over the last century. One of my favorite Christmas traditions is to watch several of them.…
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter 12/1997, revised 12/2007 and also the Boston City Paper, 12/2006 “Here we come a’ wassailing,” the Christmas song goes. The word “Wassail”…
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and Boston City Paper 12/2007 Dear Editor — I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no…
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band — MAGIC At the TD Bank North Garden, Boston Monday, November 19, 2007 By Robert Gillis Bruce Springsteen. In Boston Garden. On my…
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band – MAGIC At the TD Bank North Garden, Boston Monday, November 19, 2007 By Robert Gillis Bruce Springsteen. In Boston Garden. On my…
Review: Bruce Springsteen, MAGIC (released October 2, 2007) By Robert Gillis Published in the Boston City Paper MAGIC is Bruce Springsteen’s new studio recording and his first with the E…
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter 11/2007 and updated here 7/11/2008 A few weeks ago, I completed work at the haunted house and left the Orpheum a little…
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and Boston City Paper 10/2007 The city of Salem Massachusetts is arguably the Halloween capital of the world, and on October 31…
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…
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter August 2007 and Boston City Paper September 2007. Tuesday, August 28, 2007. I was up at the time my army friend Captain…
By Robert Gills Published in the Foxboro Reporter and Boston City Paper 8/2007 My dear friend Bob Shea — one of Foxboro’s first citizens and friend to many of us…
by Robert GillisPublished in the Foxboro Reporter and the Boston City Paper 6/2007 Fathers Day, 2007. I was 19 when Dad died after a long battle with cancer in 1984.…
by Robert Gillis published in the Boston City Paper 10/2007 SCAM: You receive an email from a someone you don’t know claiming you have won a large amount of money…
By Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and the Boston City Paper, 5/2007 While I am generally not prone to murderous rage, I think one day I’m just going…
By Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter 4/2007 For many years, one of my personal, unwritten rules for this column was that I would not endorse candidates for political…