I'll be darned. The lack of citation convinced me that it wasn't a thing.
It's a thing you can buy on eBay! I would not necessarily have been as sarcastic about it as Puleo (unless he had read some other example that was really twee), but he does seem to bear American history something of a grudge for losing track of a tragedy as bizarro and yet illuminating as a molasses flood. His book did a lot to raise its profile. It is much easier to find literature incorporating the molasses flood these days. I ran into some random historical novel earlier this year which was set in Boston in the nineteen-teens and sure enough, molasses flood.
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Date: 2025-07-01 07:06 am (UTC)It's a thing you can buy on eBay! I would not necessarily have been as sarcastic about it as Puleo (unless he had read some other example that was really twee), but he does seem to bear American history something of a grudge for losing track of a tragedy as bizarro and yet illuminating as a molasses flood. His book did a lot to raise its profile. It is much easier to find literature incorporating the molasses flood these days. I ran into some random historical novel earlier this year which was set in Boston in the nineteen-teens and sure enough, molasses flood.