The Great Molasses Flood: Boston, 1919
by:
Deborah Kops (author)
Boston, 1919. January 15, 1919 was an unseasonable warm day in Boston, Massachusetts, and a day that would go down in history. One minute it was business as usual on the waterfront and the next - KABOOM! A large tank holding molasses exploded, sending shards of metal hundreds of feet away,...
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Boston, 1919. January 15, 1919 was an unseasonable warm day in Boston, Massachusetts, and a day that would go down in history. One minute it was business as usual on the waterfront and the next - KABOOM! A large tank holding molasses exploded, sending shards of metal hundreds of feet away, collapsing buildings, and coating the harborfront community with a thick layer of sticky-sweet sludge.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781580893480 (1580893481)
Publish date: February 1st 2012
Publisher: Charlesbridge
Pages no: 102
Edition language: English
This slice of Boston history was a great read. Kops made it into a page-turner for me. While I was far less interested in the information after the flood, Kops kept the thread of characters weaving through that portion of the book to keep me thinking about how things turned out for Martin, or Teresa...
Fast-paced, nicely detailed account of one of the most unusual disasters in American history.
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