Would you have survived the Great Molasses Flood of 1919? In the Grimm Brothers’ tale, Sweet Porridge, a magic kettle, run amok, drowns a town in porridge. In Tomie dePaola’s Strega Nona ...

The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919.” The wave was 2.3 million gallons, moving at 35 miles per hour, 25 feet high and 160 feet wide at its outset, rushing through the city's crowded and ...

BUT THERE ARE SOME PRETTY DRAMATIC IMAGES FROM THE DISASTER THAT REALLY ... The anniversary of Boston's Great Molasses Flood of 1919 offers a bizarre, if grim, annual reminder of a freak accident ...