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1919 @100 with Dr. Gary Hylander

Monday May 20, 2019
6:30 PM until 8:00 PM


Sticky Business: The Boston Molasses Flood

In the early afternoon of January 15, 1919, a fifty-foot steel tank filled with over two million gallons of molasses collapsed in Boston's North End sending its sticky contents in a fifteen-foot wave through the neighborhood streets.  The disaster was blamed on immigrant anarchists.  The event knocked Prohibition and the end of World War I out of the headlines and resulted in a huge civil law suit that was not resolved until 1925.


Location: Meeting Room
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