WHEN SWEET BECAME SINISTER: THE GREAT MOLASSES FLOOD OF BOSTON, 1919

On a crisp January day in 1919, the city of Boston experienced an event as would forever be etched into its history. A massive tank holding thousands of pounds of molasses ruptured, unleashing a gushing torrent of sticky syrup through the streets below. The once-familiar scent of sweets quickly transformed into a putrid odor as structures crumbled