Hey everyone, Jody Avergan here. Welcome to our Some Sunday context series, where we try and bring you conversations new and from the archives that give you a little context for what we are up to in 2026. Now, this past week, we talked about the triangle shirtwaist fire 115 years ago this week.

In fact, a couple listeners sent us photos and social media posts about the vigil and memorial that took place outside that building this past Tuesday.

So thank you for that.

We love when you send us photos.

No surprise in the history of this show, we have done lots of episodes about labor disasters, workers' rights.

We've done an episode about the strikes in New Jersey just in the months before the Triangle Fire.

We've done an episode about the Calumet Michigan tragedy, Blair Mountain Minor Strikes.

And of course, we did a full episode just looking at the life and legacy of Francis Perkins, who witnessed this fire and then

went on to basically become the woman behind all of FDR's New Deal Labor Reforms. I'm going to round

all of those up, links to all of those in our social media and in our newsletter, so you can go

listen to those. But today, we are bringing you an episode about an incident that absolutely

falls into the more esoteric history spirit of this show.

And that is the story of the Boston molasses flood of 1919.

Definitely one of those weird facts of history.

People are like, yeah, did you know in 1919 there were rivers of molasses flowing through Boston, wiping out houses, making everything

smell sweet.

But as you will hear in our episode, it was also very much an industrial disaster and a product

of the spotty and inadequate regulations of the time.

So it does feel like something to pair with this past week's episodes.

And also, you just can't pass up a chance to talk about

the Boston molasses flood. Now, one last thing before we go, we have all new this day America 250

merch. I whipped up a few designs just for the semi-quincennial. So we have got shirts and tote bags and

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