(2002) Save the Orpheum Theater Foxboro: Keep the Curtain Rising
by Robert Gillis Published in The Foxboro Reporter April 2002 I’m not a regular theatergoer. I enjoy live shows, but the hassle of driving the 55 miles to the North…
London Calling – and interview with Shannon Leary
by Robert Gillis Published in The Foxboro Reporter March 2002 I learned recently that my friend Shannon Leary of Foxboro would be going to college overseas – in England. I…
Star Trek: War Hammer
Published on fanfiction.net (TV/Star Trek/Other) HERE Summary: It is the late 23rd century. Aboard the Starfleet Marine flagship War Hammer, Captain John Black must balance his Starfleet training with a…
Reflections on Christmas 2001, three months after the attacks
by Robert Gillis Published in The Foxboro Reporter It’s Christmas 2001. Hard to believe, isn’t it? It’s only been three months since September 11. With all that’s happened, many us…
A final toast to Foxboro’s grand dame Betty Friedman
by Robert Gillis Published in The Foxboro Reporter 11/2001 Betty Friedman first contacted me about three years ago. Betty, a senior resident of the Doolittle Home, wrote saying that she…
Foxboro Jaycees Haunted House 2001: Travel Through Time
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…
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…
September 11, 2001
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter 9/2001. The anger and pain resonate through our souls, cutting deeper than anything we thought we could feel. We are collectively wounded.…
Just one more precious life going up in smoke
By Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter 8/2001 It was a hot July Sunday— a very hot day. I was at the gas station when a kid came in…
The Weakest Link
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter, 6/2001 Monday night. The music is over, the host faces the players and snarls, “One of you is about to leave with…
Another day with simple joys, little miracles
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter 5/2001 Just another day, a day like any other. But different. I pull into the Sunoco station and again lament my car’s…
Easter 2001 and Remembering Stan and Lorraine
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter 4/2001 Easter is here again. Christians throughout the world celebrate the miracle of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, and the promise of…
The REAL storm wasn’t a blizzard: School Violence
by Robert Gillis Published in The Foxboro Reporter March, 2001 Well, once again the story began with the hype: Astronomical tides. Snowfall that just might be bigger than the blizzard…
What was the Silver Age of comic books? Superman, Batman, Superboy, etc.
Welcome to The SILVER AGE of comic books! Silly! Sexist! Preposterous! Implausible! Absurd! Written for a nine-year old audience but still beloved when those kids grew up! The SILVER AGE!…