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Kathleen Valentine
Jun 26, 2012 rated it really liked it
This fascinating book tells the story of one of the most bizarre disasters in our country's history. In 1919, on the eve of Prohibition, a storage silo in Boston's North End was being filled with molasses which was about to be shipped off to be turned into alcohol. In the cold of January the tank was half filled with nearly a million gallons of molasses. The tank had been leaking for years. Children from the neighborhood came daily with their buckets to collect the leaked molasses for their moth ...more
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Well presented about an event in United States history .Too bad today's world hasn't learned more from this disaster. ...more
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