A BlogSnax© post

In 1919, one of the most bizarre accidents in US history occurred in the city of Boston: the Great Molasses Flood. For the definitive account of the event and its aftermath, I highly recommend Stephen Puleo‘s brilliant book, Dark Tide. Not that it’s in the same league as Mr. Puleo’s fine work, but my novel, A Song in the Storm, which follows a young immigrant girl’s life in the North End of Boston, also mentions the tragedy.

A flood of molasses sounds almost comical, but with 150 injuries and 21 fatalities, ages 10 to 78, it was anything but.