In 1380, Geoffrey Chaucer stirred the travel bug of Brits with his opening lines of the Canterbury Tales:
When in April the sweet showers fall… And bathed every vein in liquor that has power To generate therein and sire the flower… Then folk do long to go on pilgrimage… To distant shrines well known in distant land.
STATE HOUSE — With just hours remaining in the current fiscal year, the state Senate on Thursday evening voted 38-1 to send a fiscal 2017 budget to Gov. Charlie Baker's desk.
The $39.15 billion budget passed the House earlier in the day on a 150-3 vote.
