The Great Molasses Flood
The sticky and heart-wrenching tale of Boston's Great Molasses Flood and its devastating impact on the city and its people
On a chilly January day in 1919, Boston’s North End neighborhood found itself submerged in an unexpected and surreal disaster: a tidal wave of molasses. It sounds almost whimsical at first glance, li…
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