{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/69a075db4e00bcfd666b5fa8/6a864bc93c9059406038c3b5?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"The Great Molasses Flood of 1919","description":"<p>A tidal wave hits your house. You’re hurt. You’re scared. You’re covered in molasses. An unimaginable situation for most of us. But for the residents of Boston’s North End on January 15, 1919, it was all too real! This week, we get stuck in the sticky icky story of one of the most bizarre disasters in American urban history: the Great Molasses Flood of 1919. Come with us as we explore how corporate negligence and government corruption led to over two MILLION gallons of your grandma’s favorite sweetener spilling into the streets of an overcrowded immigrant neighborhood. Tangents include a trip to the DMV, sexploitation, proper care tips for knee scrapes, and eating Corn Pops like a cat!</p><p>SOURCES</p><ul><li><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8M-Zo-DXXU\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Molasses: From the Slave Trade to the Great Flood - Wellesley COA</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1FnQmAsajc\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Why some people say they can still smell Boston's Great Molasses Flood</a></li><li><a href=\"https://www.masshist.org/beehiveblog/2013/01/three-centuries-of-molasses-in-massachusetts/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Three Centuries of Molasses in Massachusetts </a></li><li>Physics behind Boston’s deadly 1919 Molasses Flood. (2016). New Scientist, 232(3102), 15. <a href=\"https://doi-org.i.ezproxy.nypl.org/10.1016/S0262-4079(16)32216-3\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://doi-org.i.ezproxy.nypl.org/10.1016/S0262-4079(16)32216-3</a></li><li>Puleo, S. (2001). Death by MOLASSES. American History, 35(6), 60.</li><li>“MOLASSES TANK EXPLOSION INJURES 50 AND KILLS 11…” (1919, Jan 16). Boston Daily Globe\n</li></ul>","author_name":"Jared Tetreau & Abe Merker"}