North End Branch of the Boston Public Library - 25 Parmenter Street - Boston, MA 02113
Wednesday, October 7, 2015, 6:30 – 7:30pm

The Great Molasses Flood of 1919, Boston's version of Pompeii, surely ranks as one of the city's worst disasters. Though the disaster was blamed at first on Italian anarchists, it was in fact the tank company's fault. US Industrial Alcohol, the company owning the tank, steadfastly blamed anarchists. In the end, twenty-one people were reported dead, the youngest a ten-year-old Italian schoolboy and the eldest a seventy-six-year-old Blacksmith. Please join us as Mr. Horrigan recounts this iconic part of Italian American experience with a slide show and lecture.

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Source: http://boston.eventful.com/