"Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind?"
Isabella Stewart Gardner welcomed guests to her 15th-century-inspired Venetian styled palace for the first time on New Year's Eve 1903. Sipping champagne and eating donuts, the Boston Symphony Orchestra played while friends roamed the galleries of Fenway Court. Surrounded by Gardner's combined passions of art, gardens, intellect, and music the candlelit courtyard glowed. It's reasonable to assume the revelers toasted the New Year by singing Auld Lang Syne.
STATE HOUSE — The Senate is gearing up for a mid-January session to pass legislation banning the use of a handheld cell phone use by motorists, and later in the month could pass a pay equity bill before debating public records reform in February.
The "tentative" agenda – subject to change – for the Senate in early 2016 features an easing of lobster processing rules, promotion of proper paint stewardship and more detailed requirements on emissions reduction.
