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Sticky Business: The Boston Molasses Flood
Dr. Gary Hylander, former History Professor at Stonehill College and Bridgewater State Univ will be visiting the Center at Medfield on 6/17.
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STICKY BUSINESS: The Boston Molasses Flood
Dr. Gary Hylander, former History Professor at Stonehill College and Bridgewater State University will be visiting the Center at Medfield on June 17 at 2:00 p.m.
Dr. Hylander has presented at the Center over the years, but has never talked about the Great Molasses Flood.
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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.
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