The Great Molasses Flood: Boston’s Sticky, Deadly Disaster
The air in Boston on January 15, 1919, was unseasonably warm for a January day. Citizens bustled through the North End, a vibrant immigrant neighborhood, unaware that a slow-moving catastrophe was about to engulf them. The cause? Not a bomb, not a fire, but something far more bizarre and deadly: a colossal wave of molasses. … Read more