The Worst Fluid to Drown In
The ground rumbles. A dark wave bears down upon you. There is nowhere to run. You're in the Boston Molasses Flood.
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Writer & Host: Caitlin Doughty
Writer: Louise Hung
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Selected Sources/Further Reading
Puleo, Stephen
Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
Beacon Press. January 15, 2019
"The Great Molasses Flood"
https://vitabrevis.americanancestors....
"100 Years Ago Today: Molasses Crashes Through Boston's North End"
https://www.boston.gov/news/100-years...
"The Great Molasses Flood of 1919"
https://historiansforhistory.wordpres...
"‘There was no escape from the wave’: These are the 21 victims of the Great Boston Molasses Flood"
https://www.boston.com/news/history/2...
"‘Masses of wreckage’: The painstaking cleanup and tragic aftermath of Boston’s Great Molasses Flood"
https://www.boston.com/news/history/2...
"What people saw and felt in the first moments of Boston’s deadly Great Molasses Flood"
https://www.boston.com/news/history/2...
"The Science of the Great Molasses Flood"
https://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...