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by Robert Gillis Published on the front page of the Boston City Paper 1/2008 and updated 5/2008 A City Paper Salute TO THE AMTRAK ANNOUNCER (Manny) AT SOUTH STATION I…
By Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and Boston City Paper May, 2008 It’s a perfect, 60 degree Saturday, and Sue and I, along with her cousin Angela headed…
By Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter April, 2008. Also published on the Foxboro Cable Access Website April, 2008. Today I thought I’d share a fun memory, an example…
By Robert GillisPublished in the Foxboro Reporter 4/2008 I’ve known Bob Hickey for 15 years, both as member of the Foxboro Jaycees and also as a friend. When he was…
by Robert Gillis 4/2008What was so special about the silver age of comic books? Read about it HERE Pa: “Um, Clark, we discovered you in the rocket and raised you…
By Robert Gillis Published in The Foxboro Reporter and in the Boston City paper 3/2007 It’s early morning and I had scored the impossible in Boston: On-street parking, not ten…
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By Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and the Boston City paper 3/2008 Years ago, Mom explained that you receive what is known as a plenary indulgence if you…
By Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter 3/2008 and Boston City Paper 2/2008 Being a slow news month with absolutely nothing else going on, I thought today I’d turn…
by Robert Gillis Published in the Boston City Paper 2/2008 Boston, Mass, February 21 — A science club’s gathering to watch last night’s lunar eclipse turned to horror when the…
by Robert Gillis Acknowledging,and still standing by, what I wrote previously (CLICK HERE) about the idea of an eleventh Star Trek movie, I must admit that I am following development…
by Robert Gillis Published in the Foxboro Reporter and the Boston City Paper 1/2008 Proving that no news is still news and the media vultures will pounce on any celebrity…
by Robert GillisPublished as a Letter to the Editor in the Foxboro Reporter 1/2008 On New Year’s Eve I took a ride up to Foxboro Common to get some new…
Merry Christmas! For the first year in my memory Sue and I didn’t send out Christmas cards this year — by choice. The reasons are many and varied, ranging from…
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.…